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January 2026: iPhone Literacy, Part 1
The January 2026 meeting was just the briefest of brief introductions to the iPhone, talking about how to set preferences to do the kinds of things you want to do and avoid doing things you don’t want to do. This brief introduction was mostly 90 minutes of talking, and several minutes of battling with Zoom, which insists on moving things around for no good reason.
The group also talked about what we wanted to do next, and the answer was: more information about Zoom. We talked a lot about security and general knowledge, but didn’t talk about privacy, which is both critical and somewhat complicated. We didn’t talk about the camera at all, which is one of the most popular features of the iPhone, and we didn’t mention phone calls. I guess you can make phone calls on the iPhone; does anyone have any experience with that?
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In the video, at one point, a slide said you got 5 MB (five megabytes) of storage with the free version of iCloud. That should have read 5 GB (five gigabytes), which is one thousand times more. The slides have been corrected.
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18:40:02 Okay, now it's…18:40:04 No, it's recording.18:40:09 Me?18:40:06 It's nice to have feedback. I… like I said, the, uh…18:40:12 the, um…18:40:14 Um…18:40:17 interface has changed, and…18:40:19 I… ah.18:40:21 And I don't exactly know why.18:40:24 Because Zoom doesn't actually tell you. They keep on offering for me to use, um,18:40:31 AI features, and I played around with their AI18:40:35 for, um, a bit.18:40:38 And it seems to do nothing that I would ever want to do, so…18:40:43 Um, it's possible that I might have dismissed it, and it got…18:40:47 Huffy and decided to make things hard for me.18:40:51 But, uh, I think we have closed captioning on, I think we have recording on, so…18:40:55 I'm back in business.18:40:59 Other questions?18:41:06 Yes.18:41:04 I have a question. I'm trying to undo my…18:41:08 I can't… I wanted to try to put my video on, but I can't see how to do that. Okay, this is Jolie Will, and I had, um, sent you an email.18:41:17 So, actually, I have two questions. After I…18:41:20 The first one is about the newest version, 26, that I downloaded, or I upgraded my phone.18:41:27 And after I did that, I noticed that the little, um, keyboard18:41:32 looked different.18:41:34 And it's smaller.18:41:36 And I couldn't get it to be any bigger. I tried to go into settings and…18:41:41 I couldn't figure out how to make it a little bit larger.18:41:45 Do you know anything about that?18:41:48 I…18:41:48 Like, when you're texting or emailing any, you know, any reason to use the keyboard, it was smaller.18:41:54 I can't swear that I noticed that.18:41:57 It looks different because of their transparent interface, but…18:42:01 I'm not aware of a side diff… a size difference.18:42:07 Um…18:42:09 I'm not… I just…18:42:10 Okay. Thank you.18:42:13 The other question that I have is that, um…18:42:16 I was wondering, because I'm starting to see just some little postings about18:42:23 how… really, it could be anywhere that we might happen to be.18:42:29 anywhere, but we can be tracked.18:42:32 And possibly identified, and so the… the… what… the reason that it came up in recent18:42:40 days had to do with18:42:42 Uh, maybe attending or being near one of these18:42:46 public demonstrations.18:42:49 Um, about the government. And, um, so…18:42:52 People were saying, no, turn your phone off, don't carry your phone, and it really just brought up the larger question,18:42:59 about security, personal security,18:43:03 Um, when you have a phone.18:43:06 It's…18:43:05 So I just… I don't know anything about that.18:43:08 It's a… it's a valid question.18:43:11 I will give you… I will start with talking about some things, security of something completely different, but it's actually related.18:43:19 The, uh… your… the only people allowed to use your mailbox.18:43:25 are the U.S. Postal Service and you.18:43:28 Your neighbors can't put messages in there, vendors can't put messages in there. The only people who can put mail in your mailbox is the U.S. Post18:43:37 office than you. Anything else that's done is a felony.18:43:42 Well, the FBI wanted to track people by their, uh, post… by their18:43:47 you know, messages that, uh…18:43:50 email that they were sending and receiving,18:43:52 And they were tired of getting…18:43:56 trying to get warrants for this, because the…18:43:59 Courts are very reluctant to give you warrants.18:44:02 But the courts ruled that there was one thing in Anna18:44:07 on an envelope that is public, and that is the outside.18:44:11 The outside has who it's going to, and sometimes it has who it's coming from.18:44:16 So the, um, FBI started issuing what they call cover letters.18:44:22 And a cover letter is a letter that they issued to the post office saying, uh, when you get mess… when you get letters to or from this person, please run them through your Xerox machine.18:44:34 And you can't actually see the letter, but you can at least see who's mailing it. And by that, they can…18:44:40 try and find out if you're engaged in some kind of corrupt activities. Well…18:44:44 That is not as useful as it used to be, because…18:44:48 Uh, people don't mail as much as they used to, but, you know, back in the 1930s, 1940s,18:44:53 was used in a lot of criminal prosecutions. They didn't know what the contents were, but they knew that two18:44:59 bad people were talking to each other, and so therefore they…18:45:02 could investigate them and see what it was they were doing.18:45:06 Today, we don't do that. Today, we send things via email, we send things via text message.18:45:14 the… on the Mac, if you were sending something from one Mac to another Mac,18:45:20 and you're using Apple Mayo,18:45:22 It's encrypted on your machine, it's encrypted in transit, it's encrypted when it gets to Apple's mail service,18:45:28 It gets encrypted when it goes to the person on the other end. So it's encrypted from end to end.18:45:35 One part that is not encrypted…18:45:37 is the address. And that can't be for the same reason you can't encrypt18:45:43 an envelope. The post office has to know where to deliver it, and in this case, the email service18:45:49 has to know where to deliver it.18:45:51 Another issue with email is that once it gets to the other end, that person can18:45:59 basically decrypt it by mailing it off to whoever they want.18:46:03 You hear a lot of people about, you know, their email was intercepted. It really wasn't intercepted. They sent it to Joe. Joe shared it with his girlfriend. His girlfriend was offended and shared it with her friends,18:46:15 ended up in the newspaper. But it's encrypted from your end to another Mac.18:46:20 If you send it from you to a Windows user, it may or may not be encrypted,18:46:25 Because the Windows machine…18:46:27 may not have the technology, may not have an email client that can encrypt it. So, it's encrypted from you to Apple, it's encrypted18:46:35 But it may not be encrypted from Apple to the other person, because that person may not be…18:46:40 have the technology to decrypt it. So, you have a limited amount of control there. It's even worse with messages,18:46:48 Because if you're sending them from one iPhone to another iPhone,18:46:52 and you're using the, uh…18:46:54 You're using the Apple ID as the address name.18:46:59 It's encrypted, from end to end.18:47:01 But if you send it to somebody who's got an Android firm,18:47:04 I Android phone, it's probably not.18:47:07 Um, because most Android phones don't have that.18:47:11 of technology.18:47:13 So, what does this have to do with, um, geofencing, which is where the police can figure out where you are located?18:47:21 Geofencing requires a warrant.18:47:24 And you can't just go out and do it by… without a warrant, because it requires the telephone company to do something.18:47:32 And what it does is the warrant specifies, I'm looking for a particular18:47:38 person, and they're going to be in this area we think they might be in this area. And they specify a cell tower,18:47:45 And with that specification, they can see18:47:50 whose phone was in that area.18:47:53 But it's kind of vague.18:47:55 Um, because if you… if you're walking or driving along, and you're going from one cell tower to another cell tower,18:48:04 it will retain18:48:06 the linkage to the first cell tower for a little while in order to keep from18:48:11 disrupting the conversation.18:48:12 So it's possible you might be locked to a cell tower, and you're not even in that area. So, in terms of…18:48:18 In terms of finding out what you're doing, it's not terribly useful.18:48:23 But, um, in, uh, some countries, like Iran,18:48:28 They're using it for everybody that we found in this area. We're gonna arrest them all and throw them in prison.18:48:35 Um, in the United States, you have to have a little bit more proof than that.18:48:38 The, um… and again, the only thing it does to… it doesn't say that you were in that area, it says a device18:48:45 that they can trace back to who paid for the account, a device was in that area.18:48:51 So, for example, if you left your car in…18:48:54 If you left your phone in someone's car, and that person drove… was driving down Washington, they could say that, oh, you were in that18:49:03 You were driving down Washington at a particular time,18:49:07 No, it was… it was your device.18:49:10 Um, so, it's… it's of limited use, and uh…18:49:16 Um, the courts are very reluctant to…18:49:19 to, uh, get too excited about,18:49:21 Uh, somebody just because they pinged on it on a tower.18:49:26 Um,18:49:27 turning off your phone. A lot of people have been suggesting they turn off your phone.18:49:31 Turning off your phone negates your ability to use the phone. You can't be contacted on the phone if the phone's turned off, so that's not really a…18:49:39 Good idea. I know one guy who keeps his phone,18:49:44 In his microwave.18:49:45 Does anyone know why anyone would keep a phone and a microwave?18:49:53 Aren't microwaves shielded?18:49:55 Yes, a microwave is a Faraday cage. A Faraday, you can…18:49:59 look up what Faraday was, but he was an English physicist.18:50:02 Who figured out how electromagnetic fields work.18:50:05 And a Faraday cage, um, is basically a box that you can put something in18:50:11 so that it… so that radio signals of a certain type can't leave18:50:16 the, uh, box, or enter the box.18:50:19 Um, there are rooms that they build in government buildings that have a Faraday cage inside.18:50:26 So that, uh, you can go in and look at classified information and know information can leak out of that, of that, uh…18:50:34 room. Uh, and a microwave happens to be a Faraday cage.18:50:40 Um, so if you put your phone in the microwave, it's… it can't send out… it can't be detected.18:50:46 Of course, that also can't be used, because if it's in the Faraday cage,18:50:50 it can't get any signals, and so people can't call you.18:50:54 It just says the phone's unavailable.18:50:58 Um, so, yes, you can turn off your phone,18:51:01 but then you can't use your phone. Yes, you can put your phone in the microwave, but then you can't use it.18:51:06 Um, I know one person who didn't quite understand about putting the phone in the microwave,18:51:11 And they turn the microwave on, which was…18:51:14 bad for both the phone and, um…18:51:18 And the microwave, uh, the phone caught on fire and blew up.18:51:22 Um, so…18:51:26 It's… basically, you want to use your phone18:51:30 leave it turned on. Um, and if you're going down Washington Street and you happen to be18:51:36 Going past some protesters, that's perfectly fine.18:51:39 Uh, there's really nothing that anybody can associate other than18:51:43 You had a device that…18:51:45 you're paying for that, uh, went through that area. But they won't know that it's you.18:51:51 First of all, unless you happen to be the target,18:51:54 Because when they're targeting this, they have to be…18:51:57 Very specific is that I'm looking for Joe Johnson. They can't just say,18:52:01 Give me a list of everybody who went past this cell tower.18:52:04 Uh, that's… that's…18:52:07 No courts are going to go with that.18:52:11 So, yes, I've read the people who are afraid to take their…18:52:16 phones to demonstrations, but, um, that's really not a terribly great idea, because, uh…18:52:23 You might need your phone, among other things, to call for bail.18:52:27 Yeah.18:52:28 Thank you very much.18:52:31 Did that answer your question? Did there just seem to be…18:52:34 beating around the bush.18:52:35 No, I… it's… you answered the question, thank you.18:52:43 Um, I pasted into the chat window.18:52:47 the, uh, registration form for tonight, because I would like to know18:52:52 Uh, who I'm talking to.18:52:56 Um, so if you could…18:52:58 Click on that link, um…18:53:01 You can fill out the registration form.18:53:03 Basically, it's just saying who you are, and please enter your email address.18:53:07 And also, please, put in your first and last name. If you put in Jeff, or…18:53:14 Princess Leah, that doesn't help me much.18:53:18 See…18:53:20 I'm sorry?18:53:22 The link should be in the chat window.18:53:24 Um, the link should be in the chat window.18:53:27 It's not.18:53:29 Okay, then you might have come… you might have logged on after I put it there, so I'll put it there again.18:53:40 Okay.18:53:43 Any more questions?18:53:49 Can you say, if you don't want to have notifications pop up from, like, games,18:53:55 Do you have to go to that game itself in the apps?18:54:00 you know, the apps section.18:54:02 And turn off the various notifications.18:54:05 Or can you do it in the notifications part?18:54:09 Or do you have to…18:54:08 You can… you should be able to do it in the notifications part, or you should be able to do it in the game itself.18:54:14 Some games…18:54:15 Okay.18:54:17 They have a function that turns it on, but then they don't have a way for turning it off.18:54:22 should be able to go to the Notification Center and…18:54:25 find that particular application and say,18:54:27 Uh, turn it off, or do whatever else you want.18:54:30 done with it?18:54:36 Um, one of the things I'm going to talk about tonight is setting up a…18:54:41 how to set up a quiet period.18:54:43 So that, um, if there are certain parts of times of the day where you don't want to be bothered with things,18:54:48 There's a way to set your phone so that it won't…18:54:51 bother you?18:54:54 I have a question, Lawrence. Is it January that we renew our membership?18:55:00 Uh, yes, um…18:55:01 Yeah. Okay.18:55:03 It's in January.18:55:04 Yeah, okay, um, is, um, our secretary gonna put the address we mail the check to?18:55:12 Uh, it's on the website. If you look under…18:55:14 Is it? Okay.18:55:15 Yeah, it's under… I don't remember what it's under.18:55:19 Um…18:55:21 It's join or something? It's on the website.18:55:24 Okay, thank you.18:55:27 Lawrence, this is Debra.18:55:29 Yes.18:55:29 And I have a question, um…18:55:33 I usually work on, uh, my computer with Gmail.18:55:39 And I'm trying to learn… use my smartphone more.18:55:43 But how do I…18:55:46 take a link that I want to share with someone.18:55:50 in my Gmail, and get it to my phone so I can send it to them as a… as a message. Like, if I want to share this link.18:55:58 I don't know how to do that.18:56:01 Does your… have you set up email on your phone?18:56:03 Yes.18:56:05 email it to yourself.18:56:08 Email it to… what do you mean, myself?18:56:10 Well, whatever phones… whatever, um…18:56:15 If you have it on your computer and you want it on your phone, and they don't have the same email accounts on either,18:56:22 then… but then…18:56:22 They do. They do.18:56:24 Yeah, you can still just…18:56:24 But how do I put it into a text message, the link?18:56:28 Oh,18:56:28 Without… without typing it, just to transfer it from…18:56:33 Gmail to the iMessage.18:56:36 Um, well, one way is to bring them both up at once and just copy-paste from one into the other.18:56:41 Or you could just email it from one address to the other.18:56:46 Can I email it to a telephone number?18:56:50 Uh, if it's on messages, yes, you can email it to a telephone number. Well, you can't email it, you can send a message to a telephone number.18:56:57 Through my email.18:57:00 Well, no, there's messages… if you're talking about text messages, you use the messages application.18:57:07 Right.18:57:07 And it's on… it's on your phone, and it's on your computer.18:57:10 And you send it to that, uh… you send it to that phone number.18:57:15 I will tell you that I rarely send things to phone numbers, I send them to email addresses.18:57:21 Even in messages. And that's because if I send it to… if I'm sending it from18:57:27 my computer to someone who has an iPhone,18:57:30 If I send it via… to their email address, it'll be encrypted.18:57:34 Oh, okay.18:57:34 And if I send it to the phone number, there's a 99% chance it will not be encrypted.18:57:40 Not that most people really care, but…18:57:43 Um, depending upon what it is, you probably want it to be secure.18:57:48 Yeah.18:57:50 Couldn't she right-click on the…18:57:52 On the email address and copy it?18:57:55 Yeah, it's a copy-paste.18:57:58 Okay, say that again? I…18:58:01 Control-Click is a right-click, right?18:58:02 Oh, control…18:58:06 Click. Okay.18:58:08 on what I want to copy.18:58:09 Yes. Well, you select it first.18:58:14 Okay.18:58:13 And then you can, um, either right-click or control-click to copy it.18:58:18 Okay, I'll try that.18:58:20 But I will tell you that, quite often, I just email it to myself.18:58:24 from one account to another. Like, for example…18:58:27 If I want to talk about something with straight Mac, I have a straight Mac email address that's separate from my personal one.18:58:34 And if I want to talk about it at a straight Mac meeting, I'll just18:58:37 email it to that straight MAC address, so that when I'm sharing it with people, I'm not using my personal address.18:58:45 Okay.18:58:46 I like you guys, but my personal address is basically for my daughter and…18:58:51 you know, relatives.18:58:53 Um, Lawrence, I have one more question that was kind of along Jolie's line.18:58:58 Uh, of questioning, because I'm… I tend to be a little paranoid, but it's mostly because I don't understand this whole AI thing. But…18:59:07 I was having a conversation with my sister in the living room. I don't know what it was about health or something.18:59:13 And then I hear…18:59:16 My phone, in the middle of our conversation at the end of one sentence, go, uh-huh?18:59:23 And I realized, oh, Siri has been listening to our whole conversation here, and that was her comment. Uh-huh.18:59:31 And then I got kind of thinking,18:59:33 Oh, is everything I say in my house being, um…18:59:39 recorded or tracked?18:59:41 And I thought, well, gee, that makes it kind of dangerous to have a conversation, maybe, against the… a certain administration, or what if you said this? It made me very uneasy.18:59:52 Um,18:59:52 Tell me what's going on.18:59:55 your phone is set up, it's designed to listen for the word Siri.18:59:59 It'll ignore everything else you're talking about until you say Siri, but if you say Siri,19:00:04 There's a good chance that Siri will respond.19:00:07 And in my…19:00:07 I might have said, seriously,19:00:09 Yes, it'll… it'll…19:00:10 I… I could have said that.19:00:12 And that's what triggered it, because I definitely was not asking for her opinion on anything.19:00:18 Right, but I… but it can also be…19:00:20 Seriously, surely, anything that…19:00:23 is somewhat close to that.19:00:26 Um, it will… it will trigger it. For example, there are commercials on TV,19:00:30 Where somebody will make some…19:00:33 just wild, stupid statement.19:00:35 that includes the word Siri in it.19:00:38 And my HomePod will say, uh-huh.19:00:42 Oh,19:00:42 And… because it's listening to the TV, and it heard its name.19:00:47 So, yes, it's listening, but it doesn't actually trigger until it hears its name.19:00:52 Um,19:00:52 So it's not like it's… our conversations are being recorded or listened to.19:00:57 No, I'll give you an exception, though.19:01:00 Alexa doesn't work that way.19:01:05 Who's Alexa?19:01:05 Alexa is the, uh, Amazon.19:01:10 Oh.19:01:09 AI. Alexa listens all the time.19:01:12 Uh, it doesn't wait for the, um, keyword.19:01:15 And the, um… why this is a…19:01:19 is important.19:01:21 I have a former work colleague who, on the East Coast,19:01:25 She had a, um…19:01:27 Very small dog, and she had a parrot.19:01:30 It's a gray parrot. Gray parrots can live longer than19:01:33 humans. They can live forever. And they're quite bright.19:01:37 And this, um, gray parrot…19:01:40 had listened to her owner say a whole bunch of different things, and one day,19:01:46 You used to be able… well, you can still order things using Alexa by just talking to Alexa, say, uh, Alexa…19:01:54 Um, send me 50 pounds of dog food.19:01:57 And Alexa will place an order with Amazon.19:02:00 And you can get your 50 pounds worth of dog food.19:02:03 And apparently she had done this once.19:02:05 Only not 50 pounds, um…19:02:08 It had been, um…19:02:11 I don't remember what it was, because it was… the important thing is it was a small dog.19:02:16 The gray parrot ordered 50 pounds of dog food.19:02:19 for a dog that weighed about 5 pounds.19:02:22 And it did… it… it said, Alexa, send somebody on… I think an X for multiple bags, and it came to light.19:02:29 50, 100 pounds. It was a lot of dog food.19:02:32 I couldn't figure out how this happened, and eventually they tracked it back, that the order was placed by19:02:37 Alexa, and it was placed at about a time that she was at work, so she…19:02:41 knew that she couldn't have done it. She was talking about this to her husband or boyfriend, I don't… I think they were…19:02:48 I think there was a boyfriend at the time. They later got married, saying she couldn't figure out how this had happened.19:02:54 And at that point, the gray parrot pops up and orders another…19:02:58 Uh, 50 pounds of dog food. So, she figured out…19:03:01 how that had happened. There's a way to stop that.19:03:06 And that is you set a pin on Alexa, it wants a pin of some sort, you know, a 4-digit number.19:03:11 And, uh, I happen to have an Alexa in my guest bedroom,19:03:15 But I set a pin, and then I promptly forgot it. So nobody can use that pin. But what it does is it prevents…19:03:23 your parent from using the pin, too.19:03:25 But, um, Alexa listens all the time.19:03:29 And Siri only wakes up when it hears its name.19:03:34 So if we order on Amazon, anything, is Alexa there?19:03:39 if you… if you have an Alexa…19:03:42 ECHO, which are those…19:03:43 Oh.19:03:44 Um, little… it's a smart speaker system.19:03:47 Oh.19:03:47 If you… if you have an Alexa speaker…19:03:49 Yes, you can order things on Amazon through your Alexa Smart speaker, and I…19:03:56 I encourage anybody who has an Alexa to stop that, because…19:04:00 Anybody can walk into your house and order anything.19:04:03 Or your parrot can.19:04:05 So there's a couple of things there. Number one,19:04:08 Uh, Alexis can also listen to your19:04:11 your iPhone, you know, even without pushing any buttons, and do the same thing, so you need to disable it there also.19:04:19 But Siri, you can choose between having to say, hey, Siri,19:04:25 or be able to use either form. So you can turn it to that to…19:04:31 avoid some of them by turning it on to Hazeri instead of…19:04:34 either one.19:04:36 Yeah.19:04:39 I found some web results. I can't show them if you ask again from your iPhone.19:04:45 Oops.19:04:48 So much for that demonstration.19:04:53 Yep.19:04:56 Um, I was in a classroom once, teaching people how to use Macs.19:05:00 And we had, like, 40-some-odd Macs.19:05:04 And somebody made some joke about how stupid Alexa was.19:05:08 How stupid Siri was. And so all of these 40 Macs defended themselves.19:05:13 Because they used to have it as, if you insulted, um…19:05:19 Siri, Siri would respond saying, I'm a highly intelligent, uh,19:05:23 Artificial electronic assistant or something.19:05:31 My phone did that.19:05:32 And because I called it stupid.19:05:37 And it told me it was not stupid.19:05:41 that it knew many things, and it proceeded to list all of them.19:05:47 Um, I was gonna ask if, therefore, it might not be good for me to bring19:05:53 My Alexa… I have this Alexa that I ordered, but I've been scared to plug it in.19:05:59 And, um, I was going to bring it to my husband, who's, you know, in a residence veteran's home residence,19:06:06 Um, but maybe that might not be a good…19:06:11 Actually…19:06:09 Idea. I thought he'd enjoy the access to information.19:06:14 I do think that it would be a good idea.19:06:17 But I would set a pin and then promptly forget it so that you can't…19:06:22 Yeah. Okay.19:06:23 accidental, uh…19:06:26 Um, purchase, because it's…19:06:28 It's fairly common for people to accidentally order things like, uh…19:06:32 Okay.19:06:34 Blankety-blanket, we broke another dish. I'm going to tell…19:06:39 Um, Alexa to order, uh, 500 more dishes, and the next thing you know, you have 500 dishes.19:06:45 Yeah.19:06:46 Um, so it is a good idea to set a PIN19:06:50 and then forget it, because again, that also presents…19:06:54 Anybody who comes into your husband's room,19:06:57 accidentally doing something.19:06:59 Yeah, okay.19:06:59 And, uh, and Alexa is good for things like asking, you know, what the weather's going to be, what the time is in Tokyo, and all kinds of…19:07:08 It does useful things, too.19:07:08 Yeah.19:07:10 Yeah, thank you.19:07:14 Okay, it's past 7 o'clock, and…19:07:18 Um… I will ask, is… I see our treasurer. Is our president anywhere?19:07:24 Yeah, um, the president is out of town right now, I'm sorry.19:07:30 And she cannot join, either. So, yeah, she's…19:07:35 of today.19:07:37 And I have a little report, but not very much. Our balance right now is, uh, $2,041.47.19:07:48 And… but that's before I have paid you. So, it's probably gonna be about 300…19:07:55 almost $350 less, and I'll send you the cheque.19:07:59 Okay, thank you.19:08:01 Yeah, no problem.19:08:03 So…19:08:05 Yes.19:08:05 And actually, deduce would be…19:08:09 do again for 2026.19:08:12 The…19:08:14 what was it, $25?19:08:16 I think it's… I think it's 24…19:08:16 Yeah.19:08:19 24, I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's 24.19:08:22 Uh, for the year.19:08:26 And the address is on the join page of our website.19:08:29 If you scroll down to the bottom, it says, uh…19:08:32 Um, straight Macintosh user group, and it gives the address.19:08:36 Oh, okay, great. Yeah, it's 325 East Washington Street, number 146.19:08:44 And SQUIM98382.19:08:48 Um, and yes, it is true that I am the biggest expense of the, um…19:08:54 organization.19:08:56 I…19:08:59 Yeah.19:08:56 Well, you can explain better what the money goes out for. I know it's, uh, for WordPress, so…19:09:03 Yeah, the, uh, our website, we…19:09:05 worth it for every penny.19:09:07 Our website is, um…19:09:10 done in a content pet management system called WordPress.19:09:13 And because it's slightly more expensive, but it's easiest for us to…19:09:19 Hosted on WordPress's own servers.19:09:23 Because at that point, nobody really has to know anything about computers in order to use the WordPress site.19:09:28 You have to know how to use WordPress, but that's a…19:09:31 That's about it. We play for WordPress, we pay for the rental, we're renting space on the server.19:09:37 We're renting the name Straight Mac.org,19:09:41 we actually have to pay a company19:09:44 to provide the service that links the computers together.19:09:48 So we rent that, and we also rent some pieces of software to do backups and…19:09:53 And, um, run the discussion board.19:09:57 and things like that. So, I am the biggest expense, I will.19:10:02 Readily acknowledge that.19:10:04 Um, speaking of…19:10:07 expenses.19:10:09 Um, I would like us to have an in-person meeting, but because of19:10:14 things that I'm doing personally,19:10:16 Other than running the user group, I really probably won't have any time until…19:10:21 possibly… May.19:10:25 Um, or June.19:10:28 Um, if the library is not open by that time, I was planning on using, um, my church.19:10:34 as a, uh, a meeting place.19:10:37 And I need a topic for us to talk about when we get there, but one other thing that we could do at the same time19:10:44 is basically have a, um…19:10:49 Um, it's not really a garage sale.19:10:51 an exchange. I can bring some equipment…19:10:53 that I don't need anymore, that people might find of value and…19:10:57 The other people could do that as well, but right now it's looking like that probably won't happen until…19:11:04 June, or something like that.19:11:06 And it would probably be held on a Saturday.19:11:10 Because while there are people who…19:11:14 Um, do all kinds of interesting things on Saturday. There are also people who have to work,19:11:19 They don't want to drive, and we probably wouldn't want to do it at night, so we want to do it during the daytime.19:11:24 And that, for a church in particular, that means Saturday.19:11:28 Um, so I am… I have given that some thought.19:11:32 Um…19:11:34 Uh, any questions before I go on to the presentation?19:11:41 Okay? I'm going to share my screen.19:11:46 I hope.19:11:51 Oh, really?19:11:54 Um…19:11:58 And… you should be seeing a PowerPoint slide.19:12:04 I hope. It's not… sorry, it's not PowerPoint, it's, um…19:12:09 keynote. Is that what you see?19:12:13 Okay.19:12:12 Yes, you see iPhone literacy.19:12:15 All right, I'm going to start this up.19:12:21 Um…19:12:23 I'm saying it's part one of maybe more parts, because it's a complicated…19:12:28 what an iPhone can do is actually fairly complicated.19:12:31 An iPhone is basically a Unix computer that you put in your pocket, and the first Unix computers cost millions of dollars.19:12:39 And our…19:12:42 millions of times slower than an iPhone.19:12:44 Uh, but what an iPhone can do is a lot.19:12:47 So, um, uh, first thing I'm going to do is point out some references.19:12:51 On your iPhone is an application called TIPS.19:12:56 And if you've never seen it, just tell… go down to the search bar and type in tips.19:13:01 And it'll pop up. It's basically an encyclopedia19:13:05 of what, uh, your iPhone can do, and there's a…19:13:09 screenshot of the types of… way that it's set up and the different…19:13:14 topics that you can have, and that's just the first page. There's a…19:13:17 There's another page, the second page over here. This is all out of, uh, tips.19:13:22 So it's not only how to use the iPhone itself, but also how to use it with Apple19:13:26 TV and AirPods and all kinds of different things.19:13:30 And TIPS is available on the iPhone,19:13:34 the iPad and the Mac, they have slightly different content.19:13:38 But a lot of the things they have in, uh, are in common.19:13:42 And you'll notice that there's a search bar on every page, so if you don't see what you're looking…19:13:47 If you don't immediately see it, then you type something into the search bar, and it'll go find it.19:13:52 And this is on your iPhone, unless you have a really old iPhone.19:13:56 Uh, but it's been on the iPhone for…19:14:01 Oh, 5 or 6 years at least.19:14:04 Another reference that I can endorse is the iPhone and iPad Basics19:14:11 book by, uh, Take Control.19:14:13 books. It's an electronic book, so you go to their site, and you buy it, and you can download it and start using it immediately.19:14:20 It's in iBook format.19:14:23 Uh, which is called an EPUB.19:14:25 Um, and EPUBs can be read by books on your…19:14:31 iPhone, your iPad, or your Mac.19:14:33 And it's because it's electronic, it's searchable, so you can do the same thing, just19:14:38 Type in what you want and go find that particular page.19:14:41 I think this is $15, the, uh…19:14:44 TIPS is free, because it's on your iPhone already.19:14:50 One of the first things you should note about your iPhone is who you are.19:14:55 And now that might seem kind of self-evident, but it's important.19:15:01 to, right from the start, keep this in mind.19:15:03 Because your iPhone has all kinds of personal information on it.19:15:08 Uh, you've got names and phone numbers and who your contacts are, and who you called, and who called you, and…19:15:14 Personal health records and…19:15:17 thousands of photographs, all kinds of stuff.19:15:20 And on the About page…19:15:22 you will find that it says things about you, such as your name.19:15:27 And that's the first thing you should go to. Go to…19:15:30 Settings, General, About.19:15:32 And right at the top, it'll have probably something that says something like, John's iPhone.19:15:38 You can edit that immediately. Just click in there and name it anything you want,19:15:42 That is not your name or something associated, so don't…19:15:47 Don't name it after your, uh…19:15:49 your, uh, favorite pet, or the street that you live on, or something like that.19:15:54 just pick a word or a phrase or something and stick it in there. The reason for this is that your iPhone19:16:01 has lots of radios in it, and some of those radios will say what it is. They'll say that it's an iPhone,19:16:08 And some of them might even say what the iPhone's name is. So if the iPhone is telling people,19:16:14 that this is John's iPhone, then it kind of narrows down19:16:19 who it is that they're, uh…19:16:21 who's in the area, that John is in the area, and you may not want to know that. Uh, so go in there, and the first thing you should do is change that. It doesn't change how the…19:16:31 phone works, it just makes it a little bit harder for people to19:16:35 to, uh, people you don't want, uh, involved to come in and, uh…19:16:41 And, um, bother you. It also tells you the model number.19:16:46 And the model name. Like, the model name might be iPhone 16…19:16:51 Um, but it'll have a model number,19:16:54 And the model number will tell if you're having… trying to do troubleshooting. It'll tell somebody on the other end,19:17:00 It's an iPhone 16 Pro Max.19:17:04 that it's got 256 gigs of, uh, of, uh…19:17:09 of, um, storage, and it'll tell them more things about it.19:17:13 So that's worth knowing, and the way to get there is to go to Settings,19:17:18 General and About, and if you go to About, and it's got your name,19:17:21 I rec… I recommend that you change that, too.19:17:25 something else.19:17:27 I'm sorry, I have hiccups.19:17:31 You can also use that same area to check on how many songs you have on your phone,19:17:37 Uh, how many videos, uh, the total capacity of your phone, how much you're actually using.19:17:42 And it has a bunch of identifying information called EID…19:17:47 I-M-E-I-I-C-C-I-D,19:17:50 And in my example, which is taken from my phone, I've blotted these out because, among other things, it would allow people to track your phone.19:17:58 Uh, it's very specific.19:18:00 your… these things are unique on your phone.19:18:05 The reason why they're unique on your phone is when you make a phone call,19:18:09 And you're trying to reach somebody else,19:18:11 You want to make sure that only that phone number rings.19:18:15 And rather than trying… have you memorize this really complicated19:18:19 Uh, so there's a series of letters and numbers.19:18:22 It, uh, abbreviates that into a phone number.19:18:25 And the phone numbers can change and be moved, and all kinds of things.19:18:29 But that, uh, uh, IMEI is on your phone and nowhere else.19:18:34 Um, and I've masked them off because this is taken from my iPhone, and I don't really want to tell the entire world that.19:18:42 Another thing that you should immediately pay attention to is Find My.19:18:48 Find My allows you to find your phone.19:18:51 And why is that important? Well, your phone19:18:54 Uh, say you get your phone for $1,000.19:18:58 Is that the cost of your phone? And the answer is no, that's not the cost of your phone. If you…19:19:03 by your phone, you also have a phone plan attached to that.19:19:07 Even if it's something that you…19:19:11 buy independently, buy an unlocked phone, you're still going to be paying19:19:14 probably another $1,000 to $2,000 over the course of a couple years19:19:19 for that phone plan, so the cost of your phone is really the cost of the…19:19:23 phone, plus the cost of your phone plan.19:19:26 It makes it valuable, and it's got valuable information on it.19:19:30 Find My allows you to find your phone.19:19:33 So, if you have a Mac or an iPad, you can use Find My on the Mac or iPad.19:19:38 to find your phone. And among other things, if you turn on, uh, Find My Phone,19:19:43 you can even use your iPad to go wander around the house and find it, and it'll actually19:19:50 point arrows in the direction where the phone is located, in case you left it in…19:19:54 Your car, or in the closet, or wherever it is.19:19:57 Um, the other thing that it's useful for is you can share that location19:20:03 with your loved ones. So, for example,19:20:06 Um, um, my late spouse, I knew where she was from just going to find Mike and find out that she was at church, or she was…19:20:16 doing something else. But if she was at… if she was in a meeting, I wouldn't call her and interrupt her. But if she was at, uh…19:20:24 Costco or Home Depot, I knew that she was probably free to take a phone call.19:20:30 And I also use this with my daughter in England.19:20:33 If I see that she's at home, and it's not midnight there, I know that I can call her, whereas if she's at work, I probably shouldn't.19:20:41 So it's useful for, uh, finding your lost phone, reaching your loved ones, but it's also useful for, uh, use in emergencies.19:20:50 Uh, if you're… if you have one of the more modern iPhones, it's got a crash detector on it.19:20:55 And if you're in a crash,19:20:57 Um, it will, um…19:21:00 it will, uh…19:21:02 send out a message on 9-11.19:21:06 And it doesn't even require your assistance, it'll just send it.19:21:10 Um, which is, um, nice to have. Many, many lives have been sought, uh…19:21:15 Save because of that feature.19:21:17 And if you don't have, uh, Find My turned on, you, uh, you should.19:21:21 And it's, again, under Settings, and Apple Account is that part at the top.19:21:26 Where it's got your photograph or your image, or something like that. That's the Apple account.19:21:32 portion, you click on that, and you can go in and set IP, uh…19:21:36 find my… turn it on.19:21:40 Um, you also want to protect your phone from bad things, and the easiest way to do that is to turn on updates.19:21:49 Um, you heard in the question and answer session that somebody19:21:52 had not turned on an update to the new operating system because of rumors that there were19:21:57 that it had bugs. That's really not a good idea, because every time Apple19:22:02 issues an update, it tells you what they patched.19:22:06 And by telling you what they patched, it also tells hackers what is vulnerable on older machines.19:22:14 So they immediately, for people who have older operating systems, start attacking those machines.19:22:19 So, you always want to turn on the updates.19:22:22 And you find that under Settings, General Software Update, you want it19:22:27 turn automatic updates on.19:22:29 There's a thing down below that that says Beta Updates, and mine is off, and yours should be off.19:22:35 Because, uh, if you don't know Greek, Greek is the, uh…19:22:40 Um, beta is a Greek word, and it means it does not work.19:22:43 Beta software is called beta software because the…19:22:46 Publisher of the software sends it out to a bunch of people,19:22:50 And says, tell us what doesn't work.19:22:52 Which means that at the time they send it out, they know that there are things that don't work.19:22:58 You should also manage storage.19:23:01 on your machine. You cannot19:23:04 add memory to an iPhone.19:23:06 When you buy it, it's… it's…19:23:09 it's a whole thing. You can't add anything to it.19:23:13 So, you always want to make sure that you buy more than the minimum that you need to use.19:23:18 Because things like photographs in particular, take up a lot of room.19:23:22 You can store entire movies on the phone, so you can watch them during flights and such.19:23:27 And a movie could be19:23:29 4GB worth of, uh, of storage. And music, and email messages, and attachments, and all kinds of stuff can use up room.19:23:37 So you always buy more than you want.19:23:40 You'll notice that in my image here,19:23:44 Prince of Persia, which is a game all by itself is 3 gigabytes, that one game.19:23:49 And, um, this is a screenshot from my phone.19:23:53 I've never played Prince of Persia. It was downloaded because somebody…19:23:57 said that they wanted… they thought it was a really good simulation,19:24:01 And, uh, they wanted me to download it, so I downloaded it, and then I really just haven't got around to playing around with it.19:24:08 But, um, um…19:24:10 You always want to manage your storage and make sure that you have enough.19:24:13 And you can review, there's a section here that says Review Large Attachments.19:24:18 So we'll go through your email and look for things of a certain size that allows you to delete them out of, uh…19:24:25 Out of your email messages and out of, uh…19:24:31 photographs that are… that you don't really need, that are taking up a lot of space.19:24:36 It'll allow you to do that. That's not the best way to do it, but you can do that.19:24:43 Um, next thing, before I get too involved with this, I want to ask, are there any questions about19:24:49 anything I've said.19:24:53 Um, I… I… this is Sidna.19:24:56 Um, I can't find Find My iPhone.19:24:59 you…19:25:00 in settings,19:25:01 It's not in settings, but you can… you can do… you can find it two ways. You can, one…19:25:06 is you can go to the search bar down at the bottom and type in19:25:10 Find mine. It'll tell you where it's located. But the other thing is that just go to the About screen,19:25:17 And at the top of the About screen,19:25:19 is, uh, your photo or something that says that it's Sidna's account.19:25:24 Oh, I changed that, so it doesn't…19:25:25 Yes, but that same screen should have Find My on it. You might have to scroll.19:25:32 Okay, not seeing it.19:25:35 Alright.19:25:36 Let me go back here.19:25:40 Yeah, the… uh… yeah, you have to… you have to scroll off this, uh, screen.19:25:46 So you click on, uh…19:25:49 Um, the, um…19:25:52 Hmm. Okay.19:25:53 the ID…19:25:54 And, uh…19:25:56 it'll, uh… it'll lead you to, uh, find my…19:26:01 Or I'd type that in there.19:26:10 If you're not finding it, we can go back and take a look later.19:26:13 Okay.19:26:14 Um, in addition to protecting the machine, you also need to protect yourself.19:26:19 And, uh, the most obvious way to do this is with passwords, but on your iPhone,19:26:26 You might have other options, depending upon what kind of iPhone you have. Some of them have, uh, Touch ID,19:26:32 Where you can use your fingerprint. Some of them have Face ID, where you use your face.19:26:38 If you have those capabilities,19:26:41 absolutely turn those on.19:26:43 But you should also set a pin.19:26:47 Um, I was surprised at the number of people who have no password protection on their…19:26:51 phone at all. And so they're taking a really expensive device with all kinds of personal information,19:26:57 And they have no kind of protection whatsoever, so anyone19:27:00 could just take it away from them and then start using it.19:27:03 and run up their phone bill. Um, so you should make sure that you have a PIN set.19:27:07 And you have a choice of either a 4-digit or a 6-digit. I'd always recommend19:27:14 a six-digit, and the sixth digit should be something that…19:27:17 is easy for you to remember, so you don't have to, uh…19:27:20 to, uh, um…19:27:23 fumble around trying to do it.19:27:25 And one way to do this as an example is, uh, find the zip code of wherever you were born,19:27:30 and add an extra digit. So, that'll give you 6 digits, and it's something that19:27:36 Um, if you don't know the zip code of where you're born, it's easy enough to look up. Uh, after entering it a few times, you'll definitely remember it.19:27:45 But you should set the pin because it's a backup for your Face ID.19:27:49 If your Face ID is not working because of…19:27:52 for light or a bunch of other things.19:27:54 you can still type in the PIN. And there are times…19:27:57 When your phone will insist you type in the PIN19:28:00 Even though you know Face ID is working, because…19:28:03 if you have it in your pocket or your purse,19:28:06 things bump into it, and it thinks people's trying to break into it, so it wants your pinned to make sure that it's you.19:28:11 Uh, so, set a pin and use Face ID, or use the fingerprint, uh, Touch ID,19:28:18 Uh, because, among other things, you will need it…19:28:21 to do things like unlock the phone, add things to your phone from the iTunes and the App Store, do payments,19:28:30 have password autofill.19:28:32 You notice that on this particular phone, all those things are turned on, so if you want to do19:28:38 Any of those things, you need either Face ID or a passcode.19:28:42 There is an op… there's a… you can set up an alternate appearance, so, for example, if you're afraid that it won't…19:28:50 recognize you with and without glasses, you can do that.19:28:53 You can also set a Face ID with a mask.19:28:56 Now, you might think this was put on there for the pandemic, and that's true.19:29:00 But it's also useful in the wintertime, when you might have a muff around your face,19:29:04 And you don't want to take the muff off of your face in order to…19:29:08 open up your phone. So, um, give it a chance with this Face ID with mask.19:29:15 as a clue when it's doing the look at your face, it's looking mostly around your eyes, because that's a very distinctive part of the face.19:29:26 your eyes and the shape of your nose.19:29:28 And how it does this, if you have a… if you have a phone that's got a black bar at the top,19:29:34 That black bar actually holds a whole bunch of…19:29:37 infrared emitters, and what they do is they shine a whole bunch of invisible light at your face,19:29:43 And depending upon how rapidly it comes back to the phone, they can tell the shape of your face. So it's looking at the shape of your face,19:29:50 As well as, uh, particularly the, uh, look of your eyes.19:29:54 is how, uh, Face ID works.19:29:58 Um…19:30:01 Passwords in part two. Mac OS, iOS, and iPadOS all come with a password manager called19:30:09 Passwords. And they will sync19:30:12 back and forth to each other using iCloud. So, if you set up19:30:17 passwords to use iCloud, which you should.19:30:21 If you enter a password on your phone, your Mac will know it. If you enter a password on your…19:30:26 Mac, your phone will know it. And that's rarely useful when you're doing things like19:30:32 you're going onto your bank account, and you want to know19:30:35 what your balance is, and you're not at home, and you want to look at it someplace.19:30:39 You can use your phone to do that, and even if you've never done it before, the password will be on your phone.19:30:45 And it's also useful for things like Wi-Fi.19:30:49 I'll give you… I'll give you an example on the next page, but it'll remember…19:30:54 that the Wi-Fi access in a particular place, it knows what that word is.19:30:59 And then if you bring another device, like you went there with an iPad,19:31:03 And you show up with a MacBook one day, that MacBook will also know that password because they're shared back and forth via iCloud.19:31:11 Uh, using the Passwords app. Uh, there's also a really good commercial app called, um,19:31:18 1Password, which does a few more things than, uh…19:31:22 Apple's password, but it costs… it's a subscription thing, it costs money. I'm not denigrating it, I'm just19:31:28 Saying, yes, it does more, but it also costs money.19:31:32 Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Google,19:31:36 All of these also save passwords, and there are also things called authenticators,19:31:42 that, uh, uh, basically authenticate that are you,19:31:48 And those things can also store useful information.19:31:52 So, you really should use a password manager.19:31:56 Because you should never, ever use…19:31:59 a password for more than one.19:32:03 website, or application, or anything of that sort. Never repeat a password. I'll give you an example.19:32:10 There's a business downtown where the owner used the same password for his phone.19:32:17 And for his, uh…19:32:19 computer that he used to run his business.19:32:22 And, uh, used it on a bunch of other things. And he entered into a free drawing that he found online.19:32:30 And this free drawing was for, I don't know, a boat or something. Well, the free drawing was actually a scam, and what they were doing is they were collecting people's19:32:37 email address, and then password.19:32:40 Since this business owner used the same19:32:43 email ID and password for everything.19:32:46 The hackers then just went through and found19:32:49 banks that had that email and password ID and drained his account.19:32:54 So you never, ever, ever want to use the same password for more than one thing.19:33:01 And the best way to keep track of that is with a password manager. Password managers, among other things,19:33:07 sort them in alphabetical order, and they've got a little find thing where you can go find things.19:33:12 Um, it's much better than lead…19:33:15 putting them on a sheet of paper. This, um…19:33:18 Back in the ancient days, they used to have these things called typing L's on desks.19:33:23 And a typing L was a flat…19:33:25 metal panel that came out that you could put a typewriter on.19:33:28 And if you weren't using the typewriter, you could then shove it back into19:33:31 The desk, well, people don't use them for typewriters anymore, and I was appalled to find out that one of my, uh…19:33:37 Coworkers had all of their passwords on their password now.19:33:41 And, uh, so I pulled it out one day, and…19:33:45 I was absolutely horrified.19:33:47 And so I did what any good computer security manager was. I took a photograph19:33:52 of that, and I emailed it to them. And they were appropriately horrified.19:33:57 So you want to protect yourself from people like me.19:34:02 Oh, by the way, this is a screenshot of things on my…19:34:06 phone that I'm allowing to autofill passwords. Uh, the password manager, yes, I'm allowing it to do that, but I don't let any of my browsers do that.19:34:17 Anyone have an idea why?19:34:24 No ideas why?19:34:29 I don't allow browsers to fill in passwords because when I go to my bank,19:34:34 I wanted to make sure that I really want to log into that bank.19:34:37 I don't want the browser to assume something.19:34:40 and log in. I want that to be a deliberate…19:34:44 act on my part, so…19:34:46 Yes, I'm… I'm exceptionally paranoid, and I don't let the browsers log me into websites.19:34:53 Um, because that's just me.19:34:56 More on passwords. Yes?19:34:57 Would you…19:34:58 Would you speak to, um…19:35:02 your preferences or your thoughts about password managers.19:35:08 Um…19:35:06 In general, those that we can, um…19:35:10 contract with.19:35:13 I would… I highly recommend, if you have an iPhone, to use the passwords…19:35:18 app that comes with it. It's very easy to use, it's not the least bit complicated.19:35:23 Um, it can't do as much as 1Password.19:35:27 But 1Password is something like, I don't know, 70 bucks a year?19:35:31 So, it costs more money.19:35:33 But, uh, 1Password can also do things like19:35:37 It can remember PIN numbers for banks and things that are not passwords. It can remember those.19:35:43 Um, uh, so, uh, you can have encrypted notes and things with one password.19:35:49 But it offers, uh, it's…19:35:52 it's not as… it's not as easy to use and elegant as passwords, and passwords you don't have to19:35:58 You don't have to spend money on it. And if you have both, uh,19:36:02 and you have, uh…19:36:04 iPhone, then they can share passwords back and forth between them through iCloud.19:36:10 So, um, I would highly recommend passwords if you have an iPhone.19:36:16 But if you have multiple different things, including Windows machines, 1Password looks more interesting.19:36:29 I'm not going to answer that. Um…19:36:33 If you have something like a Windows machine, 1Password might be more…19:36:37 I'm attracting because 1Password works on both Macs and…19:36:42 iPhone. The downside is you have to pay19:36:46 for a separate version for the iPhone.19:36:50 than for the windows. It's not… it's not one-size-fits-all. You have to…19:36:54 pay for each copy. Um, but I highly recommend passwords apps.19:36:58 And if you notice, this is a screenshot of the opening screen of my passwords.19:37:03 I have 707 passwords.19:37:05 I have 13 pass keys, which…19:37:08 I don't want to explain right now, it's a much… it's a more secure way of doing this.19:37:12 I have zero codes.19:37:14 I have 46 Wi-Fi passwords.19:37:17 Most of these were collected by my phone.19:37:20 Um, and I have 214 security alerts.19:37:23 And I'm going to mention the security alerts. You can get a security alerts because…19:37:28 You have an account on a site that was hacked.19:37:31 Um, that's one way to get a security alert. You can also get a security alert if you reuse passwords. Now,19:37:39 Passwords doesn't actually send these passwords up to Apple. It compares it right on your phone.19:37:44 And it goes through and says, ah, you use this for both19:37:49 Um, uh, the Bear Diner, whatever that restaurant is that…19:37:54 Uh, East Swim.19:37:55 Um, and you also used it at Home Depot.19:37:58 And you shouldn't do that. So it'll flag that as a security concern.19:38:02 Um, and those are things that you should pay attention to. The reason there are 21419:38:07 is because of some things that I do.19:38:10 Among other things, I do…19:38:12 past… I do security checks.19:38:14 Um, and, um…19:38:18 That's… that's from, um, passwords that's on your phone now. If you do not have a passwords app on your phone,19:38:26 It means that you're using an older version of, uh…19:38:29 the iOS operating system, but…19:38:32 current version has the Passwords app on it.19:38:35 And it first came out on the iPhone, in fact, and then…19:38:38 Recently, it moved to the Mac.19:38:42 Any questions on that?19:38:47 Ken or Kenneth James?19:38:51 I will talk to him later.19:38:56 Something else you need to pay attention to, um…19:39:00 The average age of the person in our user group is not young.19:39:05 Um, and looking into the display settings, if you think that the text is too small,19:39:11 or the screen is too bright, you can go to Settings Display, and you can change it.19:39:16 Uh, from a light theme to a dark theme.19:39:20 I usually have mine set at the light theme during the day, and the dark theme at night.19:39:25 Um, because they don't like the glaring white light coming up at me.19:39:29 Um, you can have it change the scene at, uh…19:39:34 The theme at sunset, and how does it know sunset? It knows what your latitude and your longitude is, and it knows what…19:39:41 time it is, so it's got a good idea of when sunset is.19:39:44 If you don't like the liquid glass interface that Apple has, you can make some changes to it.19:39:49 Um, the primary one to pay attention to, though, is the text size,19:39:54 And whether or not you want it to be bold text.19:39:57 Um, a lot of people, they just see bold text with more ease.19:40:03 You can do all kinds of, uh, different kinds of settings just in the display.19:40:08 This true tone has to do with…19:40:11 how much, uh, blue light you have.19:40:15 LEDs are famous for emitting more blue light than the sun does.19:40:20 The sun has a slightly more yellow light.19:40:22 And the True Tone sets it so that19:40:25 It's more… it has less blue and more yellow.19:40:30 Um, and it looks better on things like skin tones, so…19:40:33 That's what two-tone is. A true tone is.19:40:39 related to accessibility, the display, is the accessibility settings, which is under settings, accessibility,19:40:46 You can have the phone speak to you, so when you…19:40:49 you click on something, it'll actually speak the text to you.19:40:52 You can have the Zoom text to make it larger, you can change the size of text in something other than the main display.19:40:59 You can set it to control things by your voice,19:41:02 Where you can actually say, um, do this, that, and the other thing. I can act… you… all of us can do this if you turn on Siri.19:41:11 You can have Siri,19:41:13 dial a phone number. The trouble is, you have to have something that's very…19:41:18 specific. So, for example, I could have it…19:41:21 dial my late spouse's phone number, because she was in my VIP list, and she was the only one there.19:41:27 named Kathleen. So I can say,19:41:30 call Kathleen, and my phone19:41:32 would call Kathleen without me even touching the phone.19:41:36 Um, so that's a… that's a useful…19:41:41 Sari in another room, stuck.19:41:46 Or, press 1 for more options.19:41:52 Anyway, um…19:41:55 There are a lot of things you can do. Among other things, you can control it with your voice.19:41:58 So there are a lot of accessibility options,19:42:01 It goes on for actually a couple pages.19:42:04 Maybe more than a couple pages.19:42:08 This is something that a lot of people don't think about, but you should… you can set the dictionaries that iPhone uses.19:42:15 Uh, I have a mindset to the…19:42:18 English, US, the English UK,19:42:22 The French to the English, the German to English, the Japanese to English are all selected on my phones.19:42:27 Because of various things that I do. My daughter lives in England,19:42:31 And she sends a lot of things to me with British spellings.19:42:35 Um, I use the English spelling myself.19:42:37 Where is this used? It's used in spell checking and autocorrect and all kinds of other things.19:42:42 If you don't set it, it's going to be set to English US.19:42:47 But you can add other things to it.19:42:50 Um, and I do that because I'm, among other things, I got really tired of the way there was misspellings and…19:42:56 German words, and it's much better about that now.19:42:59 But you can set that in Settings General Dictionary.19:43:05 I'm going to now mention something that's one of the most controversial parts, which is artificial intelligence. A lot of people, because of news stories,19:43:13 are very afraid of artificial intelligence.19:43:16 And I'm not afraid of artificial intelligence, but I do see that it can do a lot of harm.19:43:21 Um, the Apple intelligence is unique19:43:25 Inasmuch as Apple has deliberately restricted what their19:43:29 artificial intelligence can do.19:43:33 your iPhone tries to do as much as it can…19:43:36 on the phone, and they have a whole bunch of what are called, uh…19:43:41 logic, uh…19:43:42 processors that do things like parse the things that you are saying so it knows19:43:47 But it is, you're asking for, and if it can do that…19:43:51 Without talking to anybody else, it will.19:43:54 If it does something that you… that it needs to go out and ask19:43:59 more information elsewhere, it sends an encrypted message that sends a token19:44:04 It doesn't identify what it is you're… who asked for it, it just knows what was being asked. So, for example…19:44:10 If you want to know what the weather is like in Bonn, Germany,19:44:14 It would send a token to Apple, Apple would find out what it is, send the answer back.19:44:19 And give you the result. But nobody else would know that you asked that, because it's… it sends an encrypted token,19:44:27 With no identifying information from you.19:44:29 So it tries to do as much as it can on your machine, and if you ask for things like…19:44:35 calling your spouse, it can do that. If you ask for19:44:39 the current temperature, it knows where you are, and it can figure out what the current temperature is.19:44:45 doesn't really need to go out and do a lot of things.19:44:48 for what you're…19:44:54 with the message, press 1. To listen to your message, press 2.19:44:59 Please record, press 3.19:44:59 I do not know what that is.19:45:02 Um…19:45:11 record, press 3.19:45:14 I do not know what it's doing.19:45:17 So I hope he gives up.19:45:24 Records, press 3.19:45:25 Um, I'm gonna go back there.19:45:27 You can use this, um, um, among other things,19:45:35 Um, you can change the voice that it's using for Apple Intelligence. And mine is a woman's Irish voice, because I just like it.19:45:44 And I like the way it mispronounces the word squim.19:45:47 Um, you can have it…19:45:50 you can use artificial intelligence to dictate messages, to dictate email,19:45:55 to do a lot of things. Um, I use it when I'm…19:46:00 navigating, I'd say,19:46:02 Um, um, show me the directions to the…19:46:06 Chipotles and, um…19:46:09 Port Angeles, and it'll…19:46:11 bring up a map and…19:46:13 plot me, of course, and I can do this without19:46:16 taking my hands off the wheel. So, it is… it is a useful…19:46:20 set of things you can do. But you can go through the Apple intelligence to tell it what it is that you19:46:26 wanted to do, and what you don't want it to do.19:46:29 And other applications can also use Apple Intelligence, and you can turn them19:46:34 That was on or off as you please.19:46:36 As a general guideline,19:46:39 Don't allow…19:46:42 applications to use contacts, or Siri, or Apple Intelligence, unless you think it makes sense.19:46:49 You will see a lot of games want access to your contact list.19:46:53 And your game should not have access to people's addresses.19:46:58 Um, it just shouldn't.19:46:59 Why do they want that? They want that so they can sell advertising, and that's not…19:47:03 While you're playing the game, so just don't let it do that.19:47:07 Any questions about that?19:47:13 Okay.19:47:13 Okay, looking forward to it.19:47:15 I'm sorry?19:47:21 Um, the camera. There are a staggering number of things to talk about the camera.19:47:26 And I'm going to skip this entire, and we can do this at some other time, because…19:47:31 It's really a universe unto itself. These are just the screens for all the different things you can set the camera for.19:47:38 And, um, that's a lot.19:47:42 So, we're gonna skip that.19:47:44 Uh, I'm going to demonstrate something else, though.19:47:47 I'm going to, uh, get out of my…19:47:51 slideshow, and bring up…19:48:00 a, um…19:48:01 a movie that I made.19:48:06 Holy crap.19:48:07 I'm sorry?19:48:08 That's 3 crabs, isn't it?19:48:10 Yes, that's 3 crabs. That's not the… that's not the demo part, though.19:48:13 The demo part. I want to show you that your Apple Photos…19:48:18 is really good at organizing things, and you have Apple Photos on your phone as well, but I did this demo…19:48:25 on my Mac, because19:48:27 It's got more space. But you can… I can…19:48:30 going to fire it up here, and for collections, you can put things into collections, and it puts them together, and…19:48:36 does nice things. You can have favorites.19:48:39 You can have recently saved,19:48:41 You can have MAP. Well, this map shows where photographs were taken.19:48:45 How does it know where they're taken? Because the Apple… the iPhone knows where it was when it took a photograph.19:48:53 you can have videos, and videos, among other things, you can have videos that have…19:48:58 slow motion. Now, you'll see it slows down here…19:49:02 And that was done with the slow motion setting on the camera.19:49:05 And here we are… have it sped up because it's a time lapse.19:49:09 And you never want to be in a merry-go-round going that fast.19:49:12 And here we have some windmills in eastern Washington that are going at really19:49:17 fast speed, so this actually helps speed the Earth up by making them go that fast.19:49:23 Uh, that's it. That's a joke, that's a joke.19:49:25 Here we have the, um, Northern Lights, uh, time lapse of the Northern Lights that I took.19:49:30 Last year? The last year.19:49:32 Yeah.19:49:34 So, those are… that… but…19:49:38 you're, uh…19:49:39 iPhone automatically characterizes things and puts them in these spaces.19:49:44 How does it know what a Screenshot is?19:49:47 It knows that because you click two buttons and it saves it in a certain format.19:49:51 This, by the way, is the punctuation out of a…19:49:53 something I wrote. So it got rid of the text and just had the punctuation. Don't ask why I did that.19:49:59 Um, there was a reason.19:50:01 Um, I was trying to show somebody how to do secret messages. It's not showing people in pets because I didn't specify people in pets, so I didn't have them.19:50:09 here, you're showing the videos again.19:50:11 Selfies, how does it know selfie? It's using the front camera, so it knows it's a selfie. I use it for taking, um…19:50:17 pictures of roofs in European buildings, cathedrals, and…19:50:21 This is York Cathedral, for example.19:50:24 This is the underside of my table. I didn't want to crawl around on the floor to find out what it was, so I just…19:50:29 took a selfie of the floor. This is a diving bell in Dublin.19:50:33 Uh, the next thing it's going to show is a conference center in Dublin, shooting straight up.19:50:38 So, selfies can be used for things… that's as a dinosaur in Denver.19:50:42 They can be used for things other than taking pictures of yourself.19:50:47 Live photos, all those live photos were taken by mistake, and these portraits were also taken by mistake.19:50:52 These are panoramas.19:50:55 Panoramas can be vertical. I wanted a long picture of this…19:50:58 Totem pole, and so I made a panorama.19:51:00 It defines a panorama as something that has an extra long…19:51:04 width, so it can be almost anything. It can be the ocean,19:51:09 Um, this is taken up from, uh…19:51:13 park here. And this next one's going to be a meteor crater in Arizona.19:51:19 that I'd always wanted to visit.19:51:21 time lapse, the same thing. It knows that these are time lapses. All this organization was done by19:51:28 photos. I didn't do any of this organization.19:51:31 And that's what I want to show you, that19:51:33 Photos can do this, and photos can do this on your phone as well.19:51:38 You don't have to go to any great effort. A lot of people say, I can't figure out how to organize my photos.19:51:45 Uh, Photos is doing a really good job already.19:51:50 This is a stupid ad for, uh, something that doesn't exist.19:51:54 This is a visual pun. Tinkerball, where it's knocking a ferry back and forth across a net.19:52:00 That was all done with, um, uh…19:52:03 emojis. Here's a misspelling that I thought was funny. It's out of a…19:52:08 news story.19:52:10 Um, and again, back to…19:52:12 This was something my daughter sent to me.19:52:17 I'm amazed it went through the mail.19:52:22 Here's… this is a screen recording. I had my iPad…19:52:25 record its own screen of me playing a game.19:52:30 This is a spatial photo that I did by mistake.19:52:33 Here you see a cat playing with an iPhone.19:52:38 Uh, raw photos, I should almost everything in RAW.19:52:41 This is a ProRes, which is a very high professional, uh…19:52:46 recording for video, and that is just absolutely fascinatingly saturated.19:52:52 beautiful video, and that was just done with the iPhone.19:52:55 This is my brother with a hydrogen bomb.19:52:59 It also will do things like find duplicates.19:53:02 A lot of people have lots of duplicates on their phone. It'll go through and find them.19:53:06 it thinks this is a receipt, which it is,19:53:10 it thinks this is a receipt, and it's actually a bookmark.19:53:12 It can detect handwriting, and again, all of this organization was done by…19:53:19 photos. It wasn't done by me.19:53:21 And that's what the point of this video, is that you're, uh…19:53:25 your iPhone can do a lot of things that you may not have really given any thought to.19:53:30 Um, it can detect the next thing after this is going to look at, uh…19:53:34 illustrations, and again, it's looking at the image,19:53:38 It's using logic on the phone to think that19:53:41 something is an illustration rather than a photo.19:53:45 Um, and it does all of this automatically.19:53:50 You just have to let it do its thing.19:53:59 Any questions about that?19:54:08 I will go back to my…19:54:11 to my, uh…19:54:15 presentation.19:54:19 Where am I?19:54:23 Okay.19:54:27 Um, I have…19:54:29 custom wallpaper on my machine, on my phone. It's a picture of my granddaughter, and you do that by going to into Settings, Wallpaper.19:54:39 I know people who've had19:54:42 their phones for, like, 10 years and didn't realize that they could change19:54:45 the way that it looks. Um…19:54:48 You can also have it… you can have multiple sets.19:54:51 You can have the, uh…19:54:53 a photo for, uh, the lock screen, and you can have a different one.19:54:58 For the regular screen that you're using when you're actually doing something with the phone.19:55:03 So you have complete control of that, and you can change it. You can also customize it, so, for example, I have this19:55:09 large time setting.19:55:12 Uh, on the lock screen.19:55:15 Standby is sort of similar to lock screen, it's in settings, standby.19:55:21 If you have one of the newer phones,19:55:24 and you have it on its charge, and you mount it tilt it up on its side,19:55:30 It turns itself into a nighttime clock.19:55:33 And it'll have a, you know, red characters, so it doesn't…19:55:38 mess up your, uh, time vision, and you can have it show the outside weather, whatever it is that19:55:43 fits in that. A number of different things can be on it. And that's…19:55:48 Built into your iPhone. You don't have to do anything special.19:55:51 Just make sure it's plugged into power,19:55:54 set it up on its side at nighttime, and it'll turn into a…19:55:59 Uh, bedside, um, clock.19:56:03 Focus is something that a lot of people complain about when they have a smartphone that19:56:09 He keeps on interrupting them.19:56:10 And there are lots of things that you can do. You can set it so that in settings focus, you can have it set to Do Not Disturb times.19:56:18 I have my day set19:56:20 from, uh…19:56:23 10 at night till 6.30 in the morning.19:56:26 From 10 at night to 6.30 in the morning, my phone will not beep when it gets an email, will not beep when it gets a message.19:56:32 will not respond to a phone call unless it's somebody on my VIP list.19:56:37 And the VIPs are usually family members, and…19:56:41 It'll also send through, um…19:56:43 Emergency alerts. Um, I don't know how many of you were…19:56:47 hit with a, uh, Amber Alert, like, at 5 in the morning.19:56:51 a couple weeks ago, there was an Amber Alert. Those do, uh, break through.19:56:56 Um, so if we had a tsunami warning, it would break through.19:56:59 You can set to times where it reduces interruptions at19:57:05 work times, or when you're studying, or other types of things.19:57:09 You can set it for… to know what your sleep time is, and…19:57:13 all kinds of different things to reduce the amount of…19:57:17 chaos that you have to…19:57:19 deal with. You can also go through and set19:57:23 notifications on all of your apps.19:57:26 And you do this in setting, notifications, and at the top, it lists you the different kinds of, uh…19:57:32 alerts, displays that you can get.19:57:34 And here it says I want a scheduled summary of alerts at 8 and 6 in the morning and 6 at night.19:57:42 And down at the bottom, it says Notification Style, and…19:57:46 It'll have a long list of every single app on your phone that sends out a notification.19:57:51 And you can turn off notifications so you get19:57:54 none at all, or you can specify a…19:57:57 particular type of notification.19:57:59 Notification can be a beep noise, the moon notification.19:58:01 can be a banner across the…19:58:04 Uh, front of your iPhone, the notification can be a vibration.19:58:08 But again, for a lot of people,19:58:11 You might just want to go through and just turn off a lot of these things.19:58:14 Uh, because you don't want to be interrupted.19:58:18 Haptics, uh, is a fancy word for the vibration, so you can set things so that…19:58:24 Uh, for certain types of things.19:58:26 Um, you get a vibration rather than…19:58:30 an audible signal. But you can also go through, and you can change the volume level for alerts,19:58:36 You can change, um…19:58:39 you can, uh, change the ringtones,19:58:42 for… have a different type of ringtone for your text messages, for voicemail,19:58:47 for email, when you're sending mail, sometimes people like to hear something to make sure that it actually left.19:58:54 Um, in my particular case, I use a19:58:56 swish noise, um…19:58:59 you can have custom ringtones for…19:59:02 particular people. I'm not going to go into how to do that right this second, because it's not…19:59:08 It takes so… it takes a while.19:59:10 But, for example, my brother, my daughter, my late spouse all had their own19:59:16 Ringtones, so I could tell just from the ringtone.19:59:18 who was calling me.19:59:23 They're also on newer phones, they will automatically dial 911 if you're in a crash.19:59:29 And you do this from the Settings Emergency at SOS, you can turn it on. I recommend everyone do that.19:59:35 You can also trigger it19:59:37 yourself, by holding down the side button,19:59:41 And either of the volume buttons, if you hold it for, I think it's something like…19:59:46 5 seconds, it'll call 911.19:59:49 Um, or at least it'll ask you if you want to call 911.19:59:53 And it'll also, depending upon what it is, send a message to your family member or somebody you designate,20:00:00 or your healthcare provider.20:00:04 by setting up an emergency contact for them.20:00:07 Um, the, um…20:00:09 Uh, it'll do that for a crash.20:00:12 The Apple Watch will also do that for a fall.20:00:15 Um, I had a fall…20:00:17 a couple weeks ago, I got my foot tangled in something, I fell down.20:00:22 And my watch asked me, do you want to call 911?20:00:25 If I had not told it to stop that…20:00:28 It would have called 911. And this has saved a great number of lives. The first person…20:00:35 Uh, who was ever rescued by an Apple Watch was here in Washington State.20:00:39 They fell off a, uh…20:00:42 trail, uh, up in the Cascades.20:00:44 It's falling down a cliff, and their watch called…20:00:48 911, and they were rescued.20:00:50 Um, most people… nobody knew that they were missing, which is…20:00:54 why it's really handy, because it did this without anyone even realizing there was a problem.20:01:01 Um, I'm going to make a couple recommendations, and one of them is that if you don't have an iCloud Plus account,20:01:09 You buy one. Because with your phone,20:01:13 You can use 5GB worth of space on Apple's iCloud.20:01:18 Well, 5GB worth of space, especially for an iPhone,20:01:22 is nothing, because a picture can be 20 to 40 megabytes in size, depending about20:01:27 what it is you're doing. And you go through that space really quickly, and if you include all the attachments that people send you in email, and attachments they send you in messages, and so on and so forth,20:01:38 You can use up all that space real quick.20:01:41 And it's inexpensive. You can get 50 gigabytes for 99 cents, and you can get…20:01:46 12 terabytes for $59.99.20:01:50 12 terabytes is a staggering amount of stuff.20:01:54 I have two terabytes.20:01:56 And I shared that with my late spouse, and I share that with my…20:02:01 daughter in England on a family plan.20:02:03 So we're all sharing the space.20:02:05 Um, and it's really just an inexpensive way to back up20:02:10 information and share passwords between your phone and your…20:02:15 Mac, and all kinds of different things.20:02:17 And I highly recommend it.20:02:20 And this URL will take you to it. You can just say, how do you sign up for iCloud, and it'll take you there.20:02:26 Um, that's one of my recommendations that everyone should have. Oh, we also… a couple of things that iCloud also has, iCloud Plus has.20:02:35 is Private Relay. If you visit a website, and you have20:02:39 subscribe to iCloud Plus.20:02:42 When Apple… when you go someplace,20:02:44 Apple uses a fake IP address,20:02:48 for you. So you can go to, like, the straight Mac,20:02:53 website, and in my log on the Straight Mac website, it'll have an IP number, but it's not yours.20:03:00 And that's useful to prevent…20:03:03 advertising agencies from building a picture of the kinds of things you visit and what you do.20:03:08 So, uh, um, that's, um…20:03:11 something well worth having.20:03:13 And I also recommend that if you can, to get an Apple card. An Apple Card…20:03:18 Um, you can apply for it on Apple. It's designed to work with your iPhone and the Apple Wallet, which is included on your phone.20:03:26 It has no fees, you get cash back on purchases,20:03:30 And on the card itself, there's nothing. It has your name,20:03:33 It does not have the card number, and there's no CV number.20:03:39 That's the little number it asks for.20:03:41 Um, to, uh, for verification, and there's no expiration date on the card. So, if somebody gets your card, they can't do anything with it.20:03:51 Um, and I have mine set so that every time I make a purchase,20:03:55 it changes the CVV number, so that I have to actually look on my phone to find out what that20:04:02 that security number is, because it does it every time.20:04:05 You can keep track of the purchases on your phone and make payments directly from your phone. So, I use it for all online purchases.20:04:15 Uh, as an, uh…20:04:16 Just as what I use it for.20:04:19 And, um, there's a bunch of stuff that I would like to cover on privacy, but we require meeting all by itself.20:04:26 Because there are hundreds of different things you can…20:04:30 deal with, uh, to maintain your privacy.20:04:33 Other things you can do with a phone, you can use it to measure things, find an altitude, find the weather, calculate tips, get directions.20:04:39 navigate using CarPlay.20:04:41 You can record calls on your phone,20:04:44 You can record both memos, which I use all the time.20:04:47 You can use it to tell time. You can use it to set alarms, you can set reminders by location.20:04:52 You can pay for things, you can carry in a full electronic calculator, you can play games, you can take photos, you can draw.20:04:59 And, shockingly, you can also use it…20:05:03 to, uh… to, uh…20:05:06 make phone calls.20:05:11 Um, last month, I just got my phone bill.20:05:15 Last month, I received…20:05:18 about 200 phone calls, most of which got screened out.20:05:22 So I didn't have to pay attention to them.20:05:24 So, there were about 300 phone calls. I made 6.20:05:29 So, I'm a big telephone user.20:05:35 Any questions? That was an awful lot of things to talk about.20:05:39 In a short amount of time.20:05:45 Thank you very much. Wow, it is a lot.20:05:50 So my one question is, do we want a part two where I cover either photographs,20:05:55 or privacy.20:06:00 If I did photographs, that's the only thing we'd cover.20:06:02 And if I did privacy, that's the only thing we'd cover.20:06:06 Can't we do both at different meetings?20:06:08 That's what I'm suggesting. Yes, it would be…20:06:14 Yeah.20:06:12 two meetings to do both. My question is, is that what you want to do, or have you been…20:06:17 Um, maxed out.20:06:19 No, I'd like to do it.20:06:22 I'd like to do it.20:06:25 Is there anyone who does not have an iPhone?20:06:29 Because I don't want to do this if, you know, only… if I'm the only one with an iPhone, so…20:06:36 I'd like to do it also.20:06:37 Okay. I shall, uh, work on that.20:06:41 looking into the future, there's a possibility that we will not have a meeting in…20:06:47 April, but that's not certain.20:06:51 or May, but again, that's not certain.20:06:54 And the reason is, my daughter might be coming to visit me in April up in Canada.20:06:59 And I might be going on a train trip.20:07:02 In May, but, uh…20:07:04 Those are a couple months off, just kind of a…20:07:07 FYI. Um…20:07:11 is ideas on what we do next month, or you want more of the same?20:07:17 Mura's… yeah.20:07:21 more of this… more of the same.20:07:23 Um,20:07:25 I agree, more of the same.20:07:27 Okay, any more… any questions about what I covered? Because…20:07:31 I did cover a lot.20:07:33 And by the way, if you didn't get the impression that I want you to use a password manager,20:07:39 I want you to use the TIPS application on the iPhone.20:07:43 It would be a good idea, but you don't have to, to get an Apple credit card, because it's really… oh, by the way,20:07:49 Um, this is Kathleen's credit card.20:07:52 It's made of titanium.20:07:54 So you can also use it as bulletproofing, you know.20:08:01 Um…20:08:02 Well, I succeeded in changing my name to Alexander Hamilton.20:08:06 Oh, good! But this is the front of the card. It only has her name.20:08:11 And on the back, actually, it was upside down.20:08:14 But, and on the back, there's nothing.20:08:17 Yeah.20:08:17 So there's no… there's no card number, there's no expiration number, there's no…20:08:22 security code, there's nothing on the card.20:08:26 Which is…20:08:26 Is it tap to… is it tap to touch?20:08:28 Uh, yeah, you tap it against the terminal, and it does its thing.20:08:32 Okay, I caught, uh, TV…20:08:36 scam report about people who left Lumen Field,20:08:40 And we're solicited for a $5 contribution for a kids' basketball thingamy.20:08:47 And they were repeated.20:08:50 Uh, anyway, it was a scam, and they ended up…20:08:53 having hundreds of dollars on their…20:08:59 Yes.20:08:58 accounts. So, there are situations where that's not a good idea for any tap-to-touch card, but20:09:05 But you see, among other things, when you tap it on there, within just a few seconds, it shows up on your phone.20:09:13 So it's not like you have to wait for the bill to find out that you used the card.20:09:19 To know.20:09:18 you get a text… you get a text message. And you have to say that you want them, but you get a text message.20:09:26 Um, um, huh.20:09:28 Kathleen used to keep track of me.20:09:30 I was downtown doing something, uh…20:09:33 And, um…20:09:35 She asked for me to stop by Dairy Queen and get her a milkshake.20:09:41 And when I came through the door,20:09:43 I was in the process of unlocking the front door, and she said, you didn't go to Dairy Queen!20:09:50 Because she didn't get an alert.20:09:53 So she knew I didn't go to Dairy Queen.20:09:57 But it's, it's, um…20:10:00 I'm not… I'm not being paid by who has this right now.20:10:04 I'm not being paid by Goldman Sachs, but…20:10:07 It's… it's a… it's a…20:10:09 It's a perfect credit card, because there's nothing… if I…20:10:12 If I were to lose my Apple card, there's really nothing they could use it for except20:10:17 body armor. Um, it won't do anything for them.20:10:21 And having the security code change with every online purchase is also nice.20:10:27 Because even if they have my name, and they've got the card number, and they've got the expiration date,20:10:32 They don't have the security code, it does them no good.20:10:39 Um, those people that, um…20:10:41 who were scammed at Lumen Field. What had happened was that they were… they were repeatedly running the same20:10:49 Yeah.20:10:48 charge through. Well, that won't work because it'll only get the first one to go through. After that, it won't work.20:10:55 And because you're getting alerts, you can know how much it was for, and you can… if it's not right, you just…20:11:00 follow up and say, hey, this is a scam, and they stop it.20:11:06 Um, and also, if you… the other thing that I'm… you might have noticed, I am lobbying that you get…20:11:12 iCloud Plus. Between having20:11:15 More space in iCloud, and the private relay, where you go someplace and what your browser, and they…20:11:24 basically have nothing that they can use.20:11:26 Um, to, uh…20:11:28 to track you, that's, uh, also…20:11:31 very worthwhile.20:11:34 their iCloud Plus, so is that for your computer, too?20:11:38 We… when you're on iCola Plus, it'll work with any of your Apple devices that use that same account.20:11:43 I see.20:11:45 Okay.20:11:50 Anything else?20:11:54 Thank you, Lawrence.20:11:56 Yep, thank you.20:11:58 Have a nice night.20:11:58 That's great.20:12:00 Thank you very much.20:12:01 Thanks for doing that. That's a lot of work.20:12:03 Yeah, thank you.20:12:05 Thank you. Bye.20:12:09 Yeah, thank you.
Apple Card moving to Chase
Apple put out a press release today saying that Apple Card is moving from Goldman Sachs to Chase Bank. This will take place over the next 24 months, and the Apple Card will remain part of the Mastercard payment network. During the transition, Apple Card users can continue to use their cards as they do at present, including subscriptions for online services, purchasing Apple products, buying paint at the local hardware store, or however you normally use your Apple Card. The press release can be found here:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/chase-to-become-new-issuer-of-apple-card
November 2025: Using OS 26
After a force-feeding of technical detail on the new operating systems in October, the November SMUG meeting centered on a demonstration of OS 26. Rather than try and show macOS 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and watchOS 26, we settled on showing chiefly macOS 26. Why macOS 26? Because it shares the same GUI (graphical user interface) and many of the same features as the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch versions, and because it is also easier to demonstrate over Zoom.
There was also an extensive question and ansswer session, plus lots of questions during the meeting.
One final point: we decided to forgo a December 2025 meeting. See you in January 2026.
Video recording of the November 2025 SMUG meeting
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Transcript of the November 2025 SMUG meeting
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18:28:56 Um, we start with a question and answer session, and although it's not exactly 6.30, I don't see any particular reason just to.
18:29:04 sit around and do nothing, so… Anybody have any questions?
18:29:11 well, I guess I should just ask, do you like the new operating system?
18:29:14 for iOS.
18:29:19 Um, for iOS on the phone, the part that I like about it most is the call screening.
18:29:24 The rest of it doesn't dramatically change. anything I'm doing.
18:29:31 But on my iPad, I absolutely love it. because I can do things on my iPad that I've always wanted to do and couldn't.
18:29:38 So, I think the iPad is a huge win.
18:29:42 I like what it does on the Mac, again, because of the call screening, I can.
18:29:47 screen calls right from my computer. I don't have to take my phone out of my pocket. You know how.
18:29:52 a struggle it is to take your phone out of your own pocket.
18:29:56 Um, and they don't have to do that.
18:29:58 What's your biggest, uh… New… thing that makes the iPad such a winner for the iOS.
18:30:06 The 26.
18:30:08 Um, in addition to doing things like the call screening, which I'm going to emphasize repeatedly that the call screening is really cool.
18:30:16 Um, the way that you can have multiple applications at once.
18:30:21 when you could only have one window at a time, yes, they had that split screen, but.
18:30:27 I have an iPad Mini, and a split screen on an iPad Mini means everything's microscopic.
18:30:32 It's like having two iPhones right next to each other, and you can't read the print on either one.
18:30:38 Um, but now, with the overlapping windows, you can… you can actually remember what the context is.
18:30:48 research, and you want to look something up. Um, I just find it… a big.
18:30:55 a big change, a nice change. on the iPad, um.
18:31:06 like, um, a Mac laptop, and. No, it's not at all like a Mac laptop, but it is much more useful.
18:31:13 as a tablet. I have a friend who. doesn't like the iPads because the battery life is too short, they have a Kindle, and they don't.
18:31:24 They charge it, like, once… every 10 days or something, and.
18:31:28 the iPad having to charge it all the time just as terrible. They saw what I was doing with.
18:31:31 my iPad, and I saw them a couple days later, and they had an iPad, so… Um, that.
18:31:40 that multiple window. capability is a huge step up to me.
18:31:44 There are other things that are nice, too, but that's the one that, uh… That, um.
18:31:52 What is your favorite?
18:31:53 Is my favorite. I'm one of these people, well, I have a photograph of Kathleen once.
18:32:00 sitting on the couch, and she's got a laptop in front of her, she's got a laptop off to one side.
18:32:05 She has her 12-inch iPad open, and she has.
18:32:10 her phone all doing things. She was doing research for, uh, something that she was doing.
18:32:18 And, um, I just thought it was hilariously funny, so I took a picture of her and sent it to.
18:32:23 our daughter, who, um, also thought it was hilariously funny, but.
18:32:29 Um… you can never have too many screens if you're doing.
18:32:34 Research.
18:32:37 Yeah, I have to get used to how it… Yeah, opens the other screen, and sometimes I don't know even how I did it, and I don't know how to close one. Yeah, I'm getting… I'm getting used to it, but that's… yeah.
18:32:54 multi-story house, and. Kathleen's study was right above where my computer was.
18:33:00 And one day I heard this terrific crash. And I went up there, and the way we used to do research is that we'd have, like, you know, 100 books open at once in stacks.
18:33:09 One of her stacks fell over, and it sounded like.
18:33:13 Like the house, we couldn't come down, but. No, she was just doing research.
18:33:17 This is… between the three of us, Kathleen, my daughter, and I.
18:33:23 We had 10 degrees, so… you know, things got a little… intense at times.
18:33:32 Oh, that's quite the… Yeah, that's quite the thing.
18:33:41 Dean, uh, my son-in-law, said that. when he came and had dinner with us, this was, um.
18:33:48 He flew across the Atlantic, never having met us.
18:33:52 had dinner with us, did not tell us that he was planning on proposing to.
18:33:58 our daughter, and we were just having dinner. And we got into one of our usual family discussions, which.
18:34:06 covered. Politics, history. healthcare, uh, war crimes.
18:34:13 just a standard… conversation in our family, and.
18:34:18 he looked like she was in shock, because that didn't represent any kind of.
18:34:24 family dinner conversation he had ever been involved with.
18:34:28 But he still proposed, so, you know, it worked out.
18:34:33 Anyway, uh, any questions?
18:34:36 It was kind of.
18:34:37 I have a question that was not about the Macintosh or the… iPad or any of that.
18:34:48 So I finally called Astound. They sent a tech out, he checked the outside connections, and.
18:34:56 so on and so forth, you know, and he said, all that seems to be fine.
18:35:00 Uh… So then he blamed the ERO.
18:35:13 And he said, if that doesn't work. And we have… I've got a 6+, I think.
18:35:20 And I've got… it's a mesh deal, and I've got a slave.
18:35:25 down the hall, and he says, if that, if you still have trouble.
18:35:30 Then switch the two, because they're the same… the units are the same.
18:35:35 So I did that, and now my Eero app doesn't work. It wants me to.
18:35:40 and wants me to reset up everything, even though the internet's working fine.
18:35:45 in both places, but the Eero app itself doesn't work.
18:35:48 Anyway, he thought that maybe the reason he wanted me to switch him is he thought maybe one of the.
18:35:55 ports, Ethernet ports. was bad, and he didn't have any way to test it.
18:35:59 So I switched them, but I'm not sure it made any difference. I haven't… it hasn't actually gone out, but it was slow for a bit.
18:36:08 I have an ery as well, and the way.
18:36:12 Iroh, by the way, for those of you who don't have an Eero, it's a plastic, white plastic box.
18:36:17 that, um, provides Wi-Fi and connectivity throughout your home.
18:36:22 You plug it into your, um… your, um, internet connection that you get from wherever your provider is.
18:36:30 And then it balances out. your Wi-Fi throughout your entire house, and it does it.
18:36:37 automatically. And it also has a firewall and a bunch of other things.
18:36:40 Um, that's an arrow that he has right up on the screen right now.
18:36:44 Um, and… there… if you… depending upon how many units you have.
18:36:52 They're not all identical. Like, for example, my master that I have that's plugged.
18:36:57 into the internet connection from Wave Cable. It has more ports than the other two, the other two don't have as many ports.
18:37:05 And when you set it up, that's the one that you set up with the master… IP address. Ip address is the internet protocol address, it's the.
18:37:16 It's basically how all the computers talk to each other.
18:37:19 And that master. Uh, then assigns addresses to others, so… Switching the two.
18:37:29 I wouldn't. really.
18:37:32 I wouldn't have done that. Um… But I know that if you have only two, they may be identical. Mine's a… Um, I got a 3-unit mesh.
18:37:47 Um, the… If you switch them, one of the.
18:37:51 Problems that they will have immediately is that. the, uh… master address is now going to be on the satellite, and the satellite address is going to be on the master.
18:38:01 And they won't like that very much. The other thing is, because they also have a firewall in them.
18:38:08 your app, what it's doing is it's looking at the master and saying.
18:38:13 My credentials don't talk to that thing. Because even if the internet addresses the same.
18:38:21 the Ethernet address in the ERO is different, and the address that it uses.
18:38:28 themselves is a combination of the two. I'll give you a kind of a corollary.
18:38:33 When you type in your name and password. What are your credentials?
18:38:39 It's not the name and the password separately, it's the name and the password.
18:38:45 Together, it makes a much more complex thing. And that is their credential. It's not just the name, it's not just the password.
18:38:54 And when you're… when your app is looking for the Eros.
18:38:58 It looks for that combination of the internet address and the Ethernet address, which are different things.
18:39:06 And together, that tells it. that is talking to the right device.
18:39:11 Now, why Eero does that? And why your Mac does that, and why most.
18:39:18 decent networking does that. it makes it much harder to spoof.
18:39:22 If someone wanted to get into your house and spy on you.
18:39:26 And they took your base station and replaced it with something that looked the same.
18:39:31 your Mac's gonna say, hey, that's not the same thing, because the Ethernet address and the IP address.
18:39:37 don't give… they're not passing the same electronic. credential to your Mac, and your Mac's going to look at it.
18:39:43 very suspiciously. And because the Eero. does, uh, networking security, when they're talking to each other.
18:39:51 They're gonna sit there and they're gonna say, wait a minute.
18:39:53 I don't quite know who's going on, what is going on here. Now, they may eventually figure it out, because they are consumer devices, and.
18:40:00 Maybe they don't like people calling up their helpline and.
18:40:04 And, um, complaining about it, but it does make me… it does make sense to me.
18:40:08 that you'd have to, uh, reset the app. Because it's just what it was talking to. Your Mac and your… iPhone, really paranoid about things like this.
18:40:22 They look at it and say, that's not what I was talking to.
18:40:25 Um, they can be upset about that sort of thing.
18:40:31 So that does make sense to me, but who do you use for your internet?
18:40:37 Sound used to be Wave.
18:40:38 Yeah, I've had a number of outages, too. They've been short.
18:40:44 Um, but, um… on the peninsula, most of our internet comes via microwave.
18:40:54 There are microwave towers that take it. It's called Northwest.
18:40:59 internet or something, I don't remember what it's called.
18:41:01 But it's, uh, um, they have some towers that go across the mountains and around the… the 101 loop.
18:41:10 And they provide, uh, internet. They used to have fiber optic cables that went underneath the bridge.
18:41:16 But, um, they decided that was probably a bad idea.
18:41:20 Um, because every time you open the bridge, it would go out, so… Now they do other things, and they were thinking at one time about running a cable under.
18:41:29 Hood Canal, but if you've ever looked at a bathymetric chart, Hoot Canal is really deep.
18:41:35 It's an interesting idea, but it's not. It's something of a technical challenge. So, most of it is provided by microwave, and the problem with microwave, when you have wind, or you have snow, or… Anything else, it interferes with the microwave signal. The wind can blow the antenna off.
18:41:55 And if you think about, if you move something a quarter of an inch right at.
18:42:01 the point of the receiver, that quarter inch can be several miles by the time it goes to the receiver at the other end.
18:42:08 And it won't necessarily get rid of this. Signal, but it greatly weakens that signal.
18:42:13 Um, so, uh, it's a, it's a consequence of where we live, but, um.
18:42:18 I'm not too wild that the technician thought it was your hero. That's… That's… Some blaming the victim, that's not.
18:42:29 Um… I wouldn't have been impressed with that.
18:42:36 If he told me to do that, I would have told him no.
18:42:42 I have a couple, if you got…
18:42:44 I'll go ahead. No, go ahead.
18:42:42 Well, thanks.
18:42:48 You know, I thought, uh, you weren't finished.
18:42:47 Go ahead.
18:42:52 Oh, okay, my question is…
18:42:54 My brother-in-law just got a new MacBook Pro,
18:42:58 And, um…
18:43:00 And we set it up for him, you know, with an Apple ID and everything, and…
18:43:05 Um, the problem was his email.
18:43:09 He came… he came from, um, Potsdam, New York, where he worked as a math professor.
18:43:17 And his email…
18:43:20 And the verification…
18:43:23 to, um…
18:43:24 to the Clarkson email address.
18:43:29 And so, and he retired and moved here, right? So now he lives in Squim.
18:43:35 But, um… so I said… I set them up a new Gmail account, because he said he didn't need any of his old gmails that, you know, he just said, I don't…
18:43:46 I don't need them retrieved, and Clarkson University,
18:43:51 cancel, you know, shut down his email. Um, they didn't want…
18:43:56 Well, yeah, and so we can't…
18:43:56 Well, that's… sucky.
18:43:59 get onto his email, but… so we have this brand new Gmail account on the…
18:44:05 new laptop… MacBook Pro.
18:44:08 So, uh, we went to, uh, his iPhone, he has an iPhone 15 Pro.
18:44:15 Uh, and…
18:44:18 Apparently, when it was, uh… I'm trying to move an app from the store…
18:44:24 It asks for the Apple ID,
18:44:27 based on his old Gmail account, not the new one that he had on the MacBook Pro.
18:44:33 Um, so how do you make his iPhone Apple ID the same as his…
18:44:40 MacBook Pro Apple ID.
18:44:45 out of the Apple ID on the phone and reset it.
18:44:49 It basically has to say, sorry, that was a mistake, and… because you see.
18:44:54 that brand new Apple phone. doesn't know what your ID is. It's whatever you tell it.
18:45:00 So if he changes it on his Mac and he wants it on the phone, you basically have to log out.
18:45:06 of the Apple ID on the phone and log back in with the new credentials.
18:45:11 Oh, how do you log out? My Apple, I never log out of my Apple ID, it's always on.
18:45:23 Yeah, yeah, the icon.
18:45:16 If you… if you go on the phone up the top where you're looking at your settings, he's got his… profile photo or icon, or whatever. If you click on that.
18:45:27 It gives you all the kind of information about your, um, your Apple account.
18:45:36 Ah, okay, okay.
18:45:39 So you log out, and then when you log in again, you use the Apple ID that he's using on his Mac.
18:45:44 Gotcha. Okay, thank you, because it was taking the old Apple ID password,
18:45:56 Yeah, yeah.
18:45:51 And, you know, he doesn't know that even anymore. It's like garbage. But the MacBook Pro, I thought, once you change it on the Pro, it would change it on all your devices, but apparently it doesn't.
18:46:03 No, no, no, because you see, if you're changing your password.
18:46:06 Yeah.
18:46:09 Gmail.
18:46:12 Yeah.
18:46:07 That's one thing. But if you're changing your. If you're changing your actual address, no, that's a completely different thing.
18:46:15 Gotcha. Okay.
18:46:17 You know, it's one thing to come along and.
18:46:20 do the magic trick where the table's all set, and you pull the tablecloth off, and all the stuff is there. But.
18:46:26 That doesn't necessarily work if you go to another table that's not set up for that. When you pull it off, all you do is.
18:46:33 Yeah, because on my… on my MacBook Pro, when I changed
18:46:33 throw all the dishes all over the place. So, you know, it doesn't…
18:46:38 Uh, my Apple ID password, it changed it for all my devices.
18:46:44 Yes, yeah.
18:46:43 Yes, but it's the same account. And through, through, through, uh, the, uh, iCloud, it's syncing all that stuff, but you see.
18:46:52 It can't sync it to something it doesn't even know about.
18:46:55 Right.
18:46:58 Gotcha. Thank you.
18:46:56 So it has to be the same thing.
18:47:00 If I come up to you and say hello.
18:47:04 in English, and then I come up to you and say hello in Hungarian.
18:47:08 Right.
18:47:06 One of those you're not going to know, even though they're both saying hello.
18:47:10 Gotcha. Thanks.
18:47:14 Any other questions? Yes?
18:47:15 All right. Yeah, I have… since we're talking about emails and stuff, not having to do with Macs, I have a… a new iPad error.
18:47:24 And a new iPhone 17, and then I have my… 2023 Mac Mini.
18:47:30 So, I was setting up. my iPhone and iPad.
18:47:36 And, um, my new iPad. suddenly did not get any of the email.
18:47:43 it showed, like, no… none of the stored email that I had.
18:47:47 So I figured out… That, uh, it was an IMAP.
18:47:51 It's Olipan, okay? I figured out it was an IMAP.
18:47:56 Whereas the iPhone and Mac Mini were both Pop 3.
18:48:01 Yes, everything should be IMAP.
18:48:03 So, I called Olipan, and I don't know if they know how to do this, but.
18:48:11 Um… it's probably more complicated than me just going in and.
18:48:18 putting IMAP instead of… POP 3, right.
18:48:21 Yeah, it is… it is a little bit complicated. I will also have another piece of advice.
18:48:27 Um, it's… it's perfectly okay to be on Olipen, but I highly recommend.
18:48:33 That you use either Apple Mail or Microsoft Mail or Gmail.
18:48:37 as your primary account. The reason is that if you move off the peninsula.
18:48:43 Your electronic life is, is… gone, because no place in the world uses Olipen except at the peninsula.
18:48:50 Whereas you can use Gmail from everywhere. So if you suddenly had a need to move to New York.
18:48:55 nobody can contact you. Whereas if you have Gmail or Apple's Mail, or you have Microsoft.
18:49:04 Those are the… those are the big… 3 that are used, pretty much.
18:49:08 On the International Space Station, people use Apple Mail.
18:49:10 Well, that would make sense, since everything I own is Apple.
18:49:17 The good news, bad news. The Apple Mail account that you get for free.
18:49:17 Ah.
18:49:22 only takes you up to 5GB, and if you take photographs with your new phone and so on and so forth, you're gonna.
18:49:28 vastly exceed that. So you probably want to go beyond the free version.
18:49:33 But the nice thing about it is that at that point, everything just syncs with one another, and they talk to each other, and.
18:49:40 They don't argue with each other. You can do the same thing with less security by using, uh.
18:49:46 Um, a Microsoft account or a Gmail account. I emphasized the security, because.
18:49:49 Yeah.
18:49:53 I'm… I'm quite paranoid, and Apple has the best, uh, paranoia out there.
18:50:00 Microsoft is far better than they used to be.
18:49:59 Yeah.
18:50:03 But it's still not something I'd recommend. Uh, if you're used to Apple Mail, when you try and use, um, out… Outlook, which is the Microsoft Mail client.
18:50:14 you will say bad words. It's, uh… Yes, Gmail is Google.
18:50:17 Yeah. So Gmail, though, is Google, right? So, yeah, I'm allergic to Google, but I'll have to think about that. I do have a Gmail account, so maybe I'll…
18:50:28 Now, here's something that you can do. Since people know your Olipan account.
18:50:35 you can probably go into Olipen, you probably would have to go into the web interface.
18:50:42 automatically forward your mail. to your Apple Mail account.
18:50:45 That way, you don't have to log into OlePen.
18:50:49 you'll still get the mail, and when you reply to people.
18:50:52 you'll be replying with your Apple Mail account, so they'll… conversation might come in with the old address, but you continue it on.
18:50:59 using your new address. And most people won't know the difference.
18:51:02 And you could use the Apple Mail app
18:51:05 to look at your Gmail.
18:51:09 Yeah.
18:51:08 Yes. Um, my Apple Mail is logged into, like, 8 accounts at once.
18:51:15 I segregate my accounts, like, my, um… Vice President account for, uh… for, um, uh, straight back.
18:51:24 is one account. Um, I have a church account, because I work for my church. I have a webmaster account for my homeowners association.
18:51:32 I'm also the secretary of my homeowner association. Each of those has different accounts.
18:51:38 Because they do different functions. So it depends upon the function.
18:51:42 and I have lots of accounts, but all of Apple Mail takes care of all of that, and.
18:51:48 It prevents… I don't want people… Using my personal account to tell me about things that they went for church. I don't want them to use my personal account.
18:51:58 tell me things for the Homeowners association. I don't want them to use my personal account.
18:52:03 for this website that run on the East Coast. I want them to use.
18:52:06 that particular email account. My personal account is basically used by my relatives and.
18:52:13 Not many other people. So, if something comes up on my personal account, I'll probably read it immediately, whereas if.
18:52:20 Homeowner's account, depending upon what it is, I may not look at until the next day.
18:52:25 So that's how I kind of… control the chaos. When I was working for the government, I would have as many as 10,000.
18:52:33 Email messages.
18:52:40 And… so I learned, really. good sorting skills for.
18:52:44 Because a lot of the things were sent off by little.
18:52:47 robots that were monitoring things. Oh! The, uh, the, um… Uh, tides buoy off the Florida Keys has gone offline.
18:53:02 then look for those kind of messages and sort them here, and other ones get sorted here.
18:53:07 But now that I'm retired, I don't really want to do 10,000 messages a day.
18:53:18 Any other questions?
18:53:22 Can you hear me?
18:53:30 Up there, it says, see a… OL doesn't say Carol, dear, how can I change that?
18:53:37 Uh, that's… the name that's there is a name that's in Zoom, so if you go up to the Zoom.
18:53:45 menu, and look for settings somewhere in there, you can type your name.
18:53:51 Um, ah. I've seen all kinds of interesting things, quite often from, like, user.
18:53:58 Or, uh, Pat's machine. And then I'm sitting there wondering, who the heck is Pat?
18:54:03 But, um, yeah, if you go into the settings, um, we just… retype your name. I wouldn't do that during the meeting, I'd do that, um… when you're not connected.
18:54:15 So, Lawrence, I have a question. This is Sidna.
18:54:20 What is the difference between smart mailboxes and
18:54:26 I don't know, all of a sudden, my mail, I've got today, I now have…
18:54:31 Smart mailboxes showing up, and I…
18:54:33 I don't remember doing that.
18:54:36 Good question.
18:54:36 Yeah, they've been there a little time. A smart mailbox means it's a certain type of message.
18:54:43 So, a smart mailbox can be… VIPs. If you go in and you designate people as VIPs.
18:54:52 VIPs, in my case, are my daughter, my brothers, uh, those are VIPs.
18:54:57 And they'll show up in a smart mailbox for VIPs.
18:55:00 Which means I really should pay attention to them, because they're my relatives.
18:55:04 But a smart mailbox can also be. messages received today.
18:55:09 Or whatever it is, but you specify the criteria, and it'll just automatically sort them. It doesn't remove them from where they are already.
18:55:18 it just kind of… it's a way of. Of just making them stand out a little bit more.
18:55:28 Right.
18:55:25 And you can ignore it if you don't. really care, because it doesn't really… it doesn't remove any of the mail.
18:55:30 it just, uh, puts it in another little box.
18:55:35 Um, so that you. can pay close attention to it.
18:55:39 Well, I couldn't find the…
18:55:41 the message today about this meeting, so…
18:55:44 you know, I went to search, and I put in November smug meeting, and of course,
18:55:49 It showed up, and I was able to get the…
18:55:52 the key, the key to get… to get here, but…
18:55:55 Alright, I will check that out farther.
18:55:58 Further, uh…
18:56:02 Okay, that was my question.
18:56:01 Yeah.
18:56:06 Any other questions?
18:56:15 No other questions?
18:56:22 Um, I have something to offer. Since we've been having auroras.
18:56:28 Um, we, for the most part, can't see them because it's been cloudy, but if there's a clear day and we're supposed to have an aurora.
18:56:34 Uh, if you go outside. a couple things. If you.
18:56:39 If you can, you should have a tripod and a bracket for your iPhone so you can take.
18:56:45 pictures of the aurora. If you don't have a tripod, you can still do it by hand, but you want to set your phone in movie mode.
18:56:54 In movie mode, it's really… it's really taking a whole bunch of still pictures at once.
18:57:01 But what it does in movie mode is that it… it kind of brightens up the aurora.
18:57:07 And it emphasizes the motion. of the, uh, Aurora, so it makes it much easier to see.
18:57:13 So your phone will be able to see things that your eyes cannot.
18:57:17 Uh, so it's just, uh… since it's wintertime, and we happen to be in the middle of a solar storm.
18:57:23 If there's a day in which it's. Not that… cloudy, you can give it a shot. The auroras are always, always going to be to the north.
18:57:34 Occasionally, you might see them to the west. And the best time to look at them is a little past sunset.
18:57:40 Um, and when I say a little past. 10 o'clock might be too late.
18:57:46 The sun will go down on Thanksgiving, for example, because I looked it up.
18:57:50 Uh, earlier today. On Thanksgiving, it'll go down at 423.
18:57:55 But that's too early, because there's still too much light. You want to have it a bit dark.
18:58:00 But if it's… you can't see them at midnight, because what you're actually seeing is the sun.
18:58:06 hitting those plasma clouds, and if it's at midnight, the sun's been way far down, so it might be on the other side of the world.
18:58:16 And none of the light is leaking over this way.
18:58:19 you kind of have to have that. When the sun is over Hawaii, that's a good time.
18:58:27 And I'm sure you can all see Hawaii from where you are.
18:58:31 When I was living in San Francisco, there are these.
18:58:33 Uh, islands off of San Francisco. the Farallons, and they're about 2-3 miles out.
18:58:39 Uh, out to about 10 miles out. And one day I was there, and I was trying to do something, and this.
18:58:46 group of, uh… visitors kept on pestering me, and I was trying to take pictures of seals.
18:58:53 And finally, one of them asked what the islands were, and I told them that, oh.
18:58:59 multi-millionaire at the turn of the century, meaning the turn of the last century.
18:59:03 wanted to visit the Hawaiian Islands, so he had some of them towed there.
18:59:08 And… They wrote to their friends.
18:59:13 who then wrote to the paper. And the San Francisco Examiner said.
18:59:18 One of your residents told us that the islands were towed there by a millionaire. Is that true?
18:59:24 And I was very embarrassed, but, um… No, you really can't see the Hawaiian islands from here, and no, you can't really tell them, but…
18:59:36 I have to remember. to be a good boy sometimes.
18:59:42 Uh, we're… a minute away from 7.
18:59:49 does our Madam President. Anything to say.
18:59:53 Good evening, everybody. I really don't have anything to say.
19:00:00 Except… I'll just do the, um, Treasury report, and as of.
19:00:04 Today, we have $2,017.47 in the account. And, um, I don't know, Lawrence, if you have any renewals coming up, but… That's the money you have to play with.
19:00:18 Yeah, I need to… I need to actually go through and send you some.
19:00:18 Yeah.
19:00:23 bills, I'm… I've had a. difficult year, so… Um, keeping track of that has not been a high priority, but yeah, I will.
19:00:32 I will get on that.
19:00:34 Okay. Well, welcome everybody, and I will let you take it over.
19:00:39 There's nobody new, right? Brian, are you new?
19:00:49 Oh, you're muted. Oh, well, welcome! How did you hear about it?
19:00:50 I am. I had to audio muted, so yes, yes, I'm here. I actually made it to the last meeting as well, so… Very anxious to learn about iOS 26.
19:01:03 Yeah. Well, that's what it's supposed to be about tonight. You look like you're in an area where you have daylight still.
19:01:06 Well, not…
19:01:11 Well, gotta remember, we're in the middle of spring.
19:01:17 Oh, that's right. Ah, that's right.
19:01:15 So… I'm in Australia.
19:01:22 Why you have, uh, late.
19:01:20 Yeah. Okay. Now, if… if you… if you'd had the… if he'd had this meeting yesterday.
19:01:29 It would have looked like I was in the middle of winter, because that's the kind of spring we've actually been having. We've had, like, 3 inches of rain in the last 2 weeks.
19:01:36 So we're just drowning, but today is nice and sunny, and uh… I'll take it and loving it, so…
19:01:45 Sounds good. Well, nice seeing you again. And then, um… Um, Lawrence, did you put the sign-up sheet?
19:01:54 Okay.
19:01:53 Not yet. I was going to do that, um… when.
19:02:01 Speaking of which, I have forgotten. I normally.
19:02:06 open up the participants so I can see, oh… Stupid thing.
19:02:12 I'm running the. My computer not away that I normally do.
19:02:17 Uh, because I went to, uh, show you how.
19:02:21 OS26 does things on the, uh, screen, which is different than it has in the past.
19:02:28 And, um. Are we showing captions?
19:02:33 Oh, I didn't have it turned on. Anyway, I'm recording this, and I'm… Also, remember to turn on closed captioning, and apparently I, uh.
19:02:42 turned it off when I thought I was turning it on.
19:02:45 Um… I tried to set up my machine so it's using mostly the defaults, because.
19:02:52 Um… I was asked some questions about.
19:02:57 how do you get rid of some features that some people don't like?
19:03:01 And there's some that I don't like either, but uh… I'm gonna show you that, and so I'm gonna… I set my machine up to be the, uh… defaults, and I'm going to be mostly talking about not iOS or iPadOS, but.
19:03:15 OS26, which is. the whole cloud. When Apple changed everything to 26.
19:03:22 They did that because, in terms of the interface, the interface is now pretty much common across.
19:03:26 All of them. There's not a huge difference between the.
19:03:30 the iPhone, the iPad, and the Mac itself screen size, and there are some things that the, uh… That, uh, the iPhone has that nobody else does, some things the iPad has that nobody else does.
19:03:42 And several things that the Mac has. that nobody else does, and that has to do just basically with.
19:03:48 the capabilities of, uh. that you can build into a full-fledged computer compared to a.
19:03:57 several ounce. appliance that you carry around in your pocket, but.
19:04:01 Uh, so it's gonna be mostly on macOS, but most of the things I'm going to show you, there are equivalents.
19:04:08 for the iPhone and the iPad. Uh, strangely enough, they also renamed the HomePod operating system as.
19:04:17 HomePod OS 26. Which I think is hilarious, because there's no visual.
19:04:23 interface, so… I don't really know why they bothered to do that, but… I'm not a marketing expert, so what do I know? Um…
19:04:36 Do any of you see the little red dot that says this is being recorded?
19:04:43 Where should we be looking?
19:04:41 Yes? I don't know, because I'm the host, I don't see the same things.
19:04:49 I don't see a red dot on my screen.
19:04:53 Lawrence, when I logged in, it told me the session was being recorded. I don't see a red dot, however.
19:05:05 Oh, I see it. I see, yeah, it's in the, it's in the menu bar, okay.
19:04:59 I moved my cursor up to the top right, and it shows… came on, and it shows…
19:05:09 Oh, it's in the menu bar.
19:05:12 Up to the top right corner.
19:05:11 Yeah. Okay. Okay.
19:05:16 First thing…
19:05:16 On my iPad, it's on the top left. But only if you call up all the controls.
19:05:23 Okay. I'm going to share my screen now. So… All of you people are going to disappear.
19:05:33 And we're going to show that screen. And I'm going to remove zoom.
19:05:40 Because I don't really want to look at that.
19:05:42 This is the, um, um, macOS 26 desktop. And this is one of the standard.
19:05:51 video screens that you… desktop screens that you can see.
19:05:56 And, uh, one of the first things I wanted to do is change it. Not because I don't.
19:06:01 just… I don't dislike it, it's just I want to show you that you can.
19:06:04 If you go to Settings. and you go to Wallpaper.
19:06:10 you can pick out a whole bunch of different wallpapers, cityscapes, landscapes.
19:06:16 Um, you can see different views of the Earth and the stars and so on and so forth.
19:06:21 Or, in my case, I have. my own wallpaper, I have a.
19:06:42 from NASA and, and uh. in pictures of dolphins from NOAA, and all kinds of stuff.
19:06:48 But to do that, you go into Settings, Wallpaper.
19:06:53 and then you just pick your own folder down at the bottom.
19:06:57 and it'll, um. um, different.
19:07:02 possibilities, or you can. pick one of Apple's, um.
19:07:07 predefined ones. Some things to note, they have some that they call dynamic.
19:07:12 wallpapers and dynamic wallpapers means they move. And they will change over time.
19:07:18 So, some of them will change. As the day progresses.
19:07:24 And they'll get either brighter or darker, depending upon which way the sun's going.
19:07:29 or they'll just have patterns that'll gradually move. Um, but, um, I.
19:07:36 prefer photographs, and having looked at all of the.
19:07:40 Apple photographs of California, that's fine, I lived in California, California's very pretty, but I.
19:07:45 I'm using my own and some from Apple.
19:07:47 Lawrence, how did you get the… your photographs on the bottom? How did you do that?
19:07:53 Well, inside of my pictures, uh… directory, um, I have a, um, folder for screensavers. Now, this… particular one, the screensavers, I actually… I'm using in my Peter Lyon account.
19:08:15 Yeah, but how do you specify that in the wallpaper, uh…
19:08:10 And because I didn't want to duplicate it, I have a shared folder that, uh… has those in it, and uh…
19:08:22 How do you give to the folder name?
19:08:27 Right.
19:08:33 Oh, a plus button.
19:08:29 And then down here at the bottom, there'll be a little, uh… Well, that plus is for colors, but there's a plus… there's a button down here to specify a directory.
19:08:43 Um, and there's, you can even come up here to screen several settings, and.
19:08:49 tell it all kinds of different things you want to do, but.
19:08:51 this is actually done from the wallpaper settings. And I don't care about that, go away.
19:08:58 Um, that's wallpaper. Um, so you can go and check that.
19:09:04 But another thing that it does, which I don't like so much.
19:09:08 is that if you have something open, for example.
19:09:12 photos, and you went to open up something else, and I have a folder here.
19:09:17 Right now, I want to open up both at the same time. If you open this up.
19:09:21 The default is it'll switch between the two of them, so it'll go away from one and go to the other one.
19:09:28 you might like that. I do not. And one of the questions that I had.
19:09:32 sent to me via email was how to stop that.
19:09:35 And you stop that by going into… desktop and dock.
19:09:42 And they have this thing called. Stage Manager. Stage manager.
19:09:49 Stage Manager, if you look over here, there's a little window that shows that there's another application open. If I click on that, it shows the.
19:09:55 that Photos is open. And… If I open up something else, then it'll make that disappear.
19:10:01 And so, this directory is also over here. And Photos is over here, but I can't have them both open at once. And I kind of like that.
19:10:11 So what you do is you go into desktop and Dock, you go to Stage Manager, and you turn it off.
19:10:17 And if you turn it off. now I can have more than one window open at the same time.
19:10:25 And by default, after you install it, it'll bring it up in Stage Manager.
19:10:30 which, as I just mentioned, I find annoying. The other thing that it does that's worth noting is that if you move it up towards the top.
19:10:38 it'll fill the entire screen with that. with whatever you're using. And it'll do that also if you bump it off certain sides.
19:10:47 My particular location, that won't happen. If you don't like that, you can go into… Um… what is it called? I was just using… desktop and dock, and you can turn that off so that if it touches this screen, it won't.
19:11:02 do that sort of thing. Um, it won't fill the entire screen.
19:11:07 Uh, it does have… it's not necessarily bad, but there are times that it will be.
19:11:13 disconcerting. Um, so… Uh, that's something that we're gonna.
19:11:19 tuck you out of the… eh, wrong button.
19:11:25 I wanted to minimize you. You can also now have… widgets on the screen, you could have widgets before, but they used to be controlled by system settings, now they're not.
19:11:35 If you come over here to this section of the screen.
19:11:38 and you right-click, you can now. say, Edit Widgets.
19:11:43 And you can add new widgets, and there are all kinds of widgets you can add.
19:11:47 There used to be, you could only add. Apple things, but now you can add.
19:11:53 a non-apple thing. So if you go to widgets.
19:11:56 Um, you'll see that you can have. widgets for Microsoft applications, for example, as well as.
19:12:05 Um, um… craft, which is a text editing thing.
19:12:10 all kinds of widgets you can have. Sometimes, though, it can be a little bit disconcerting. If you go to… this is a weather.
19:12:19 This blue box here is a weather widget. And it's not showing anything. And it says location access is needed to show weather near you. So what happens if I click on it?
19:12:28 If I click on it, it will show me weather for Cupertino.
19:12:32 Well, that's not terribly useful. And I don't want to show weather for Cupertino, so if you go into.
19:12:43 settings again, and you type in location. In case you don't know where that's located, and apparently that didn't work. It's under privacy and security.
19:12:54 Location services, I have to turn on. location services in order for the weather app to work. Why do I have to do that?
19:13:03 Apple is really, really concerned about. privacy and security.
19:13:09 So, you could be, for example, I could be having a Zoom meeting with some people on the East Coast.
19:13:15 I don't want them to know that I'm in squim.
19:13:18 If I were to click on the weather app, and it told them I was in swim, and it broadcast that out to them.
19:13:23 I might be revealing things that I don't want people to know. So it's very… cognizant of the fact that you might want to, uh… not tell people where you're located, so now it says we're in Cupertino.
19:13:36 And if I don't want it to be in Cupertino, I go up to weather.
19:13:40 I say settings… And I… pick a, uh…
19:13:50 Location. How do I get changed the… Okay, I didn't actually check this part.
19:13:58 I haven't set up before, but I don't remember how he did it.
19:14:09 Oh, there it is. Swim. So now it tells me what the weather is in Squim.
19:14:15 And you can change these, you can add them or delete them, uh… I have, you know, for my regular account, I have it set for London, because my daughter lives in England.
19:14:26 I have it set for. Seattle, I have it set for, uh… Toronto or something, because I didn't want to put in Washington, D.C, I was just being strange.
19:14:40 Um, but just basically so I can keep track around the world, and I have it set for Tokyo because.
19:14:45 My daughter was born in Japan, but it gives you the weather, and it gives you a forecast out for several months, and.
19:14:51 You can click on what's going to happen Wednesday.
19:14:54 And if you're not interested in the temperature, you can come up here and you can.
19:15:00 find out that it'll show you different types of things, so it'll show.
19:15:03 Chance of precipitation, or all kinds of… the wind speed, all kinds of things that you can do.
19:15:10 Um, and it'll go out as far as. care to look.
19:15:15 I will tell you, though, having worked for NOAA.
19:15:19 The 7-day forecast is very good. The 14-day forecast is not bad.
19:15:27 The 34-day forecast is absolute fiction, so… Um, we can't really predict God yet.
19:15:37 That's proving to be difficult. You can also add, like I said, you can add widgets that you don't have.
19:15:43 This widget up here is for batteries. Uh, there's a battery in my wireless keyboard, and it tells me right now it's fully charged. My mouse is almost fully charged.
19:15:53 I have no idea what this is. It looks like a cable.
19:15:57 And I have no idea. wet cable that is. These are clocks.
19:16:04 for, uh, London, for Tokyo, for, uh, Seattle, and for, uh.
19:16:11 Washington, D.C, because these are people who either call me or I call them.
19:16:16 So, you can customize these widgets any way you want.
19:16:20 Um, that's kind of cool.
19:16:26 I have notes here someplace.
19:16:34 One of the questions I had was to show iPhone mirroring, and… There is an iPhone app.
19:16:40 there's a… I shouldn't say an iPhone app, there's a phone app. By the way, when I'm bringing up shortcuts.
19:16:46 If you hold down the Command key and press the spacebar, it brings up.
19:16:50 Siri for searching through things. If you now, in Tahoe, if you do Command-1, it'll search through just applications. So if I type on phone.
19:17:01 It won't be looking at documents, it'll look to see if there's a phone app.
19:17:05 And if it finds a phone app, I can press return, and it launches the phone app.
19:17:10 And here's the phone app. Here's the problem, though.
19:17:15 Um, it doesn't want to use my phone when I'm in my.
19:17:19 Peter Lyon account, because Peter Lyon doesn't. own a phone. So I can't really show you.
19:17:26 phone mirroring, and I don't really want to show you phone mirroring using my own.
19:17:31 phone account, because phones are all. kinds of full of.
19:17:36 personal information, and we record these meetings, and I really don't want my phone number and such to be.
19:17:59 going out to the rest of the world. Um, this phone number here is somebody who tried to call me today, so I don't care if their phone number goes out.
19:18:01 They were now using your iPhone. So you.
19:18:04 and this is really handy when you're doing something like you're looking at.
19:18:07 a hospital bill, or you're looking at, you're doing research, and you want to call somebody.
19:18:12 If you want to refer to something on your Mac, you can now refer to something on your Mac.
19:18:17 Make a phone call, and you never have to take your eyes off the screen.
19:18:21 It's really quite, quite handy. I'm a big fan of that.
19:18:28 Uh, you can do the same thing, by the way, with the iPad. The iPad now… Uh, has a phone app as well, and it works just the same.
19:18:37 on the iPad as it does on the Mac.
19:18:40 Um… And I obliterated part of my note there.
19:18:46 Because I was not.
19:18:50 There is also now a password app. The password app first came out, I think.
19:18:56 on the iPhone, and now it's on the iPad and the Mac as well.
19:19:00 And again, I bring up my little spotlight here.
19:19:05 Command 1, because I want to look at applications, and I type in password.
19:19:11 And…
19:19:17 Maybe it's passwords?
19:19:22 And it's telling me that the Passwords app is locked.
19:19:26 Why is the password app locked? Anybody have any ideas?
19:19:31 Security.
19:19:32 Yes, if somebody… if you're, say, you're at work, or you're at home, and you have visitors, and they come play with your machine.
19:19:39 They can't look up your password. So, the password app is locked. Fortunately, I know Peter's password, so we're gonna try it.
19:19:52 And Peter doesn't have too many passwords because Peter's not real.
19:19:56 But, uh, so here's a Yahoo to reveal the password, I would put my mouse over the password, and it would show the password.
19:20:03 If you want to add something to it, you can do that right here. So, uh… what's the website or label? We're going to put, um…
19:20:16 CIA, okay. username is going to be… Spook 007… And… the password is going to be… do I want a strong password, or one without.
19:20:32 pest control characters, now I'm just gonna write one.
19:20:42 Uh, does anyone happen to reckon… can you actually see that text?
19:20:47 It's too small.
19:20:46 Does anyone recognize what it is?
19:20:51 Thank you. Yes.
19:20:49 It's, uh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
19:20:52 Robert Frost.
19:20:56 It's a poem by Robert Frost. is this a good password?
19:21:00 Hmm…
19:21:03 This is an excellent password. What makes a password good?
19:21:09 is the length. It has nothing to do with special characters.
19:21:14 has nothing to do with almost anything you've been told over the last.
19:21:19 40, 50 years. The thing that makes it a strong password is the length.
19:21:23 Yes, it's good if you use upper and lower characters.
19:21:27 Does this use upper and lower characters? Yes, it does.
19:21:29 Yes, it's good if it uses special characters. Are there any special characters in this password?
19:21:35 space?
19:21:36 Space is a special character.
19:21:40 So this is an excellent password. Um, unless you happen to be wobbered frost, in which case this is a really bad password.
19:21:50 Um, also, if you were Robert John Kennedy. John Kennedy.
19:21:54 had Robert Frost read this poem at, uh, his inauguration, so… probably not a good password for.
19:22:02 JFK either. However, back then. passwords were 4 characters at most.
19:22:09 So, couldn't have used this anyway. If you have a bank.
19:22:14 that insists that your password be uppercase, lowercase, use special characters, and you type something in, and then it complains and says, oh.
19:22:23 We can't use that special character. Do not stop… just do not go.
19:22:30 anywhere, find a different bank. It means they're using obsolete software.
19:22:42 If it won't allow you to use the space.
19:22:45 If it won't allow you to use a comma.
19:22:47 if it's actually auditing your password. that is insecure, and you need a new bank.
19:22:54 no ifs, ands, or buts. Um, but anyway, you can add passwords all the time, and so now… did I actually finish my CIA?
19:23:03 It's not listed here. What happened to my password?
19:23:16 Well, I didn't finish my CIA password, so it didn't keep it. But anyway, this is… This is what the password app does.
19:23:23 you can manually enter passwords, which is what I just tried to do.
19:23:28 Or, if you go onto a website and it says, oh, do you want to save this password?
19:23:33 your Mac will actually prompt you. So, do you want to save this password? If you say yes, then it adds it to this password app.
19:23:39 Now, this password app comes with. macOS 26, it comes with iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.
19:23:49 If you turn on. iCloud, and you have it sync passwords.
19:23:54 If you enter a password on your Mac. and then try to go to that website on your phone, it'll work.
19:24:02 You don't have to re-enter it, because it knows your phone now.
19:24:06 knows that password. It's a really, really powerful.
19:24:10 very handy tool. Any questions about that?
19:24:16 Well, not just about that, but when you hit
19:24:21 Command Spacebar…
19:24:22 All you have to do is move your cursor, and it'll bring up a little application icon, and you just click on it.
19:24:31 You don't need to hit Command-1.
19:24:31 Yeah, but I tend… I don't… But I don't want to take my hands off the keyboard.
19:24:36 Oh.
19:24:40 I tried to do as much as I can.
19:24:42 Okay, because you have… you have to hit the trackpad to do that.
19:24:42 Uh, with my hands on the, uh… On the keyboard.
19:24:48 Yeah, I have to take my hands off the keyboard.
19:24:49 Okay.
19:24:52 Just, just to show you the kinds of things you can do.
19:24:54 I'm not sure that you can hear this, but I'm gonna… Try it. From the keyboard, you can do all kinds of weird things. I'm in terminal now. Now, terminal is a way to talk to the underlying Unix operating system.
19:25:05 But because this is a Mac, Apple added some special features, too.
19:25:11 terminal, and one of them is the command called say.
19:25:26 And I think I can blow this up, let's blow this up a bit.
19:25:30 Now, what I'm typing in is the word say, and then a string of characters.
19:25:35 And if I press the return key. it… the Mac will say something.
19:25:41 This is a demo that I hope you hear.
19:25:43 Did you hear that?
19:25:44 Yes.
19:25:49 the terminal and the underlying operating system is all text. Unix is all text-based. You type in commands.
19:25:56 But, because this is a Mac, and because it has this voice synthesizer.
19:26:00 And because my voice synthesizer is sent to an Australian woman's accent.
19:26:07 Do not ask why. Um… I can type it in, and in an Australian woman's accent, it says, this is a demo that I hope you hear.
19:26:16 Now, it used to be, they fixed it, but it used to be.
19:26:19 that when I'd ask this Australian woman what the weather was, she said… she would say things like, the weather in.
19:26:27 sequel will be rainy tomorrow, but they fixed that, and I'm kind of disappointed, because.
19:26:32 It gave me a real… um, chuckle every time it mispronounced the name.
19:26:37 But anyway, this is… this is something that you can do on your Mac.
19:26:42 And it's text-based, but there are lots of things that you can do on your Mac that are not obvious. You can do this before, this is not something new, but… I try to do as much as possible from the keyboard.
19:26:53 Because I'm a reasonably fast typist. Um, so… I like to do things that way.
19:27:00 Another thing that, um, I'm not going to make any comments on the relative age of people.
19:27:06 in the user group, but… Uh, you really should learn about the accessibility features.
19:27:12 in on the Mac. Uh, accessibility, people think of them as people who are blind or deaf.
19:27:17 But it also comes for people who are having vision problems, or hearing problems, or a bunch of other things.
19:27:23 you can do, among other things, you can have it do voiceover, which I'm not going to turn on, because it's really annoying.
19:27:29 With VoiceOver, as you move the mouse over things, the Mac will speak to you and tell you what it is that you're pointing at.
19:27:36 If you… there's a way to actually do this using a repeated keystroke, and if you ever turn on voiceover.
19:27:43 accidentally, it'll drive you nuts, and you'll probably call up everybody you know asking if there's a way to turn it off, because.
19:27:50 Uh, you're sitting there, you're moving the house back and forth, and every time it touches something.
19:27:54 tries to, uh, speak it. But there are also things like, uh, zoom commands, so you can blow things up.
19:28:02 This screen… this window here, what I was doing is I was holding down the control key and hitting the equal sign, which is also the same.
19:28:08 T is plus, so think of it as control plus, I can make it larger. Ctrl minus.
19:28:13 And then I can make it smaller. But it's a useful thing.
19:28:17 for people who may be getting on in years and their eyesight isn't as good as it used to be.
19:28:23 And you find that under accessibility, but other things that you can find under accessibility.
19:28:29 Um, and I don't remember. where it's hiding, so I'll…
19:28:43 Display…
19:28:49 Pointer size. Uh, it's under accessibility and display.
19:28:56 in the pointer size, this arrow here that I'm moving around, that's the pointer.
19:29:00 And by using this little key here, you can make it the normal size, which is very small.
19:29:05 Or you can make it pretty large. But one thing to note.
19:29:08 Even at the small size, if you shake it back and forth, it increases in size.
19:29:13 So if you don't… you can't find out where the pointer is, you want to.
19:29:17 Insert something in between 2 letters and you can't figure out where the pointer is, just shake it and it'll increase in size.
19:29:23 You can change the color. This one's set to purple, but you can pick any color you want.
19:29:28 Uh, you could pick brown, which is. a really boring color for a pointer.
19:29:32 Uh, I kind of like purple because it's not blue, it's not black, it's not… anything else. A white.
19:29:39 pointer, which is the default. sometimes gets lost in the clutter, so.
19:29:45 I think a, uh, a, um… a color works out better. You can change the outline color.
19:29:53 Like, the outline right now color is white, but you can change it to yellow if you wanted to.
19:29:57 and make it look more like a. traffic sign or something. But, uh… Yes.
19:30:03 Hey, Lawrence, on my MacBook Pro, the terminal…
19:30:08 Um, to make it larger, uh, is command, uh, plus sign, not
19:30:15 Uh, not control.
19:30:18 Oh, okay.
19:30:18 I'm sorry, I meant command. It depends upon whose keyboard. If you have a Windows keyboard or a Mac keyboard as to what.
19:30:25 Well, this is a Mac keyboard. I'm on a laptop.
19:30:29 I know, I know. I was… I spent all day helping somebody with a Windows problem.
19:30:39 You're forgiven.
19:30:34 And I kind of… this is a Mac keyboard, but I'm just… my vocabulary, uh… I was confusing them because I was talking about the command key, and.
19:30:45 What can we… what key is the command key?
19:30:47 It says command on it.
19:30:46 Because they don't have a community. Well, no, no, on Windows, there is no Command King.
19:30:50 Oh, yeah, that's right, there is no Kameki.
19:30:59 Um… the, um…
19:31:07 a couple other things. To, uh, to note.
19:31:11 are… you see these things up here in the, um… in the, uh… menu bar, you have control over what shows up there.
19:31:22 interestingly enough, you go to the menu bar, and you can tell.
19:31:26 Uh, like, if I want the clock to be in the menu bar, I can just come up here and click on.
19:31:30 clock, and it'll put it up in the menu bar. Now, in this case, it doesn't really want me to do that, because I've got a widget.
19:31:35 But you can turn things on or off in turn, I can put the weather in the.
19:31:41 menu bar, except that I've got it as a widget.
19:31:43 There are other things you can put in there. I could put Zoom in the menu bar.
19:31:46 I will not. Um, Zoom's already all over the place anyway.
19:31:52 Um, but different things you can stick up here in the menu bar, so you have control over that.
19:31:57 You'll notice that here it says where it says Peter Lyon, I don't know if you can actually read that, but this is Peter Lyon.
19:32:03 Uh, if I click on this and hold it down, I can switch to other accounts, my account or Kathleen's account.
19:32:11 I can switch between them. So right now, I'm technically logged in under my Lawrence account as well.
19:32:17 And I demonstrate that, except that as soon as I switch.
19:32:20 we lose this session, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
19:32:24 But having done that, I want to show you some things that.
19:32:29 worked on the operating system you may have now, even if it's not.
19:32:34 OS26, but… Uh, and OS26, there are some.
19:32:39 change is made, and it's for things that people do all the time.
19:32:42 that sometimes confuse them, so I'm going to open up my.
19:32:47 folder here… And I'm going to… show you… well, actually, I want to show you something about the iPhone.
19:32:56 the new iPhone. I went out yesterday, and I took some pictures of an elk.
19:33:03 This is a photo that I took. Using the wide angle lens.
19:33:09 And so that's with the… wide-angle lens, which is .5X.
19:33:15 we're at 1X. I click on this.
19:33:20 And it looks like this on 1X, and… You may not see that too much of a difference, but there are elk right here.
19:33:27 You'll have to take my word for it. And here, you might be able to see that there are, you know, spots right there.
19:33:34 And I go to 2X. And you can see bigger spots there.
19:33:41 I go to 4X. Which is, as far as you could go using an iPhone 16.
19:33:48 And you can actually see that they're. You know, fairly large lumps here.
19:33:53 Cool.
19:33:54 But the iPhone 17 has an 8X. And you can actually see.
19:33:58 Oh.
19:34:02 Uh, the elk. Now they're in tall grass, and they're brown, and the grass is brown, but, you know.
19:34:08 Take my word for it, those are elk. This is out on Schmuck Road, by the way, if you've never seen the elk.
19:34:13 I was talking to a woman today. who's been here 18 years, and she's never seen the elk.
19:34:19 I try to see them as often as possible.
19:34:23 And Shmak Barod is probably the easiest way for a lot of people to.
19:34:26 To see it, um. But that's… this is.
19:34:32 is… that's as good as you're going to get. These are about… these elk are about.
19:34:37 Oh, 1,200 feet away. And with an iPhone, that's as good as you're going to get with a 16.
19:34:43 But with the 17, uh, you can get. a really good shot.
19:34:50 And I'm going to show you what you can do.
19:34:54 Well, I went to show one mother.
19:34:55 So… so, Lawrence, um… So, say you take a picture wide angle.
19:35:02 How do you see it in ADEX? Or what it is.
19:35:06 Oh, you have to change the settings, so if you shoot it with wide angle, that's if you want to shoot.
19:35:11 like a big building up close or something. But I was just doing it just to show you the difference in.
19:35:14 Yeah.
19:35:18 in what you see at the different resolutions. So…
19:35:20 So you… so you, uh… shot it in ADEX, and… Okay.
19:35:26 No, I shot it… I shot it… the first shot was at that .5X, then 1X, then 2X, then 4X, then 8, just so I could show you the difference.
19:35:30 Okay. Oh, you… there's several different… okay, several… I got… Got it.
19:35:36 Right. And just to give you some idea of what this means in terms of.
19:35:43 the pictures, the pictures, the. 0.5 is… where is the 0.5?
19:35:49 That is, uh, 8,064 by 6048 pixels. Which is a lot of pixels. It's, uh… And that comes out to the same as a, uh.
19:36:02 as ah. 2.222.
19:36:08 millimeter lens. The 1X would be a. 6.75mm lens.
19:36:15 The, uh, 2X is, again, a 6.75 for reasons that I'm not going to explain.
19:36:21 The 4X is, uh, 16mm lens. And the, uh, 8X is also a 16mm lens, so Apple's doing some interesting electronics there.
19:36:32 But to give you a comparison. If I remembered to keep, yes.
19:36:39 Uh, on a different day, when it was very foggy.
19:36:43 shot these elk. through the fog. Now, this was shot using a… I, uh… expensive camera, and it's using a 539mm lens, so just… a massive, massive lens.
19:37:01 in order to, uh… shoot these elk. Uh, it was about the same distance, but with, uh, much, uh, which is a really expensive camera.
19:37:10 Uh, so, Apple's not. at that point yet, but they're getting.
19:37:15 the cameras are really improving by, um. substantial margin.
19:37:20 Um, next thing I wanted to… I was… telling you about things that you can do now that are a little bit easier.
19:37:28 I'm going to open up a directory. And this is a directory of.
19:37:32 images, uh, and. I'm going to show you what one of the images looks like. It's going to take a while for it to show up.
19:37:41 It's a picture of an airplane. And, uh, why don't I change the.
19:37:50 Screen, so…
19:37:54 Uh… make things look a little larger.
19:37:59 Okay, it's a picture of an airplane. And I happen to know that this airplane was filmed at.
19:38:08 Uh, that I took this picture at, um… Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego.
19:38:15 Well, all of the photos that I took with this camera.
19:38:17 They just say that it's image, image 4, 9.
19:38:22 9, 5, not terribly descriptive. So if you're going to look for that image, it's going to be a real pain.
19:38:28 But if you have something highlighted. In order to get into edit mode, you can try and position your.
19:38:37 your cursor at a particular point, but quite often you'll end up double-clicking and opening it instead.
19:38:41 If you highlight it, and then press the space bar.
19:38:47 Wrong. Nope, that is not what I want to show. If you press the.
19:38:48 Ah!
19:38:52 uh… return key. it puts you into edit mode.
19:38:56 So, have this here, press the return key. puts me into edit mode. Puts you into edit mode.
19:39:03 Now that I'm in edit mode, I can use the cursor keys. If I push the up.
19:39:08 cursor, it goes to the very front of the.
19:39:11 uh… file, name. And I can say, uh, Miramar.
19:39:16 and put a space, so now it says that I filmed this at Miramar, and since they're in alphabetical order.
19:39:22 it's going to be way down here at the bottom.
19:39:23 Now, this particular folder has… 191.
19:39:31 photos in it. So, this shortcut makes it faster to edit, but think about it.
19:39:38 191. Do I really want to do this 191 times?
19:39:42 Well, you can cheat. You can come down here to where it… says, mirror image, press return key.
19:39:51 I… I select where it says.
19:39:54 Miramar.
19:40:10 a lot easier. But that's still 191.
19:40:17 thing called Script Editor.
19:40:24 Eh?
19:40:32 And Script Editor is for writing scripts, and… I don't actually want to do a script.
19:40:37 I want to go up here to, say, Settings.
19:40:40 And in settings, I want to push this little thing down here, it says Script Menu.
19:40:46 The script menu says show script menu in menu bar. Okay, I want the script menu in the menu bar.
19:40:51 So here I have a window full of images.
19:40:55 Up here is the script menu. of scripts, and I went to go to Finder Scripts, and it says Replace Text in Item Names.
19:41:04 So, it comes up here and says, okay, I want to have access to do this.
19:41:10 I say I want to have. file names, I went to look for the word image.
19:41:18 And I went to replace it with the word Miramar.
19:41:22 and a space. And I say, okay, and it says, replace the word image, which is from this image, and then it's got a number.
19:41:37 Come on. Do something.
19:41:45 Okay. I just renamed… under… well, I already named 2.
19:41:46 Okay.
19:41:54 Hmm.
19:41:50 Irene named 189 files in a couple seconds. This is on your Mac right now. You don't even have to be running OS 26. It's just that with OS 26 now.
19:42:02 it's easier to do this. And now, what I'm looking for images, rather than just have them all say image.
19:42:10 These tell me that they were shot in Miramar.
19:42:13 Which doesn't mean anything unless you've been to San Diego, but San Diego is where the.
19:42:18 Miramar Naval Air Station used to be. Now, that's nice, but are there easier ways to edit photographs? And the answer to that is yes.
19:42:27 I happen to have sucked in a lot of these things into.
19:42:32 Uh, this… well, first off, I want to show you how to make a new.
19:42:36 Um, no, I'll show you this first. This is a database of.
19:42:40 these images that I have. And I actually added 3. The U.S. Air Force Museum, Flying Leatherneck Museum, and Naval Air Station Miramar.
19:42:50 Uh, I've already added into this. this database of.
19:42:56 It's, uh… the photos… file of photographs.
19:43:01 I want to add some more, just to show you how to do this. Come here to, say, File.
19:43:06 Say, import, you point it at a directory of.
19:43:11 uh… things that you. might want to import, and I'm going to pick this one here that says Dayton.
19:43:18 Which may not seem to have anything to do with.
19:43:20 aircraft, but it really does.
19:43:22 I was born in Dayton. Yeah.
19:43:26 Oh, Dayton, Ohio? Ah, well, then you probably know what this is going to be.
19:43:28 I know. Bright Patterson Air Force Base Museum.
19:43:33 Yes. Well, technically right now, it's the United… it's the national United States Air Force Museum.
19:43:40 Um, because the Air Force wanted to recall that.
19:43:43 Anyway, these photographs are large, which is why it's taking.
19:43:46 While for them to show up. Um, these are scans of slides that I took.
19:43:58 35 years ago?
19:44:02 So it's taking a while, because each one of these is, like.
19:44:06 121 megabytes.
19:44:18 And I'm going to select all of these, because I went to put these into a new collection.
19:44:23 And so I come here to say collections. And, uh… this thing that says Dayton, that's going to be a new collection.
19:44:35 And… Uh… oh, actually, we haven't even reported them, they're not even imported yet.
19:44:42 Never mind. That was just a preview, which is why it was taking so long.
19:44:48 Okay, now they're being imported.
19:45:08 And…
19:45:16 Collections…
19:45:22 Hmm? Recently saved…
19:45:52 Uh, there. I want to create a collection.
19:46:07 Recently… Recently viewed, nope.
19:46:15 There's a plus at the top, is that? In the menu bar, is that… Oh, okay.
19:46:21 Now, that's to increase the size. eh, well, I don't care.
19:46:26 I just want to show you that that's how you import things, so that… I'll stick with that.
19:46:31 Um, but I come here, and I have these 3 collections already.
19:46:35 that tell me something about them. And if I come up here, I can say.
19:46:39 Click on this one and press right arrow, uh, right click, and it says get info, and it tells me.
19:46:45 that this is United States Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio.
19:46:49 Okay, that's nice to know. But where's the location?
19:46:54 It's not telling me the location. And I really wanted to know that it's the United States Air Force Museum. So I'm going to type that in there.
19:47:03 U. S. A. USAF.
19:47:09 museum? And it says National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. I say.
19:47:17 Grab that, and it says… It even shows you where it's, uh, located.
19:47:23 And unfortunately, because I… It was only showing that one plane, that's the only plane that it recognizes, so I want to grab all of them.
19:47:31 do a right. and I went to say that they're all there. So now it knows that all of these planes.
19:47:37 We're at the, uh, Air Force. museums. Come down here.
19:47:41 and say get info, and it knows, ah! He did it wrong.
19:47:49 You got a riverside.
19:47:52 Well, it's looking at the part of Dayton that it's in, is Riverside, apparently.
19:48:02 Hello?
19:48:11 So now I have all of these things here.
19:48:14 are being shown as being in Dayton, Ohio. Why is this useful? Well, if you take a lot of pictures.
19:48:20 It'll tell you now that I have 170… One that were in Miramar, because I did this previous for Miramar, and it's telling you that.
19:48:30 Uh, this… There's still only one in Dayton, Ohio, because of the way that I did it. I screwed that part up, but.
19:48:36 You can go to a map and it'll show you where you took your photographs.
19:48:40 It's a real easy way of going through photographs. And if I actually… zoom in on this.
19:48:47 A bit, like a lot.
19:49:00 you can see what part of San Diego. this is in, and there's 50 of these things that are in a different part.
19:49:09 Well, let's see what that is. that is actually the flying leathernecks Museum, which is in a different part of San Diego.
19:49:18 It's in, uh. place called San Carlos, which is.
19:49:22 about a mile from where I used to live.
19:49:24 And if we go to that. The flying Leatherneck Museum is mostly on the outside.
19:49:30 And it's a bunch of planes that were used by the U.S. Marine Corps.
19:49:36 And then, if I really wanted to get fancy, I would go in here.
19:49:40 And I would say that this particular one that's stuck on a post, I would say that that is a, um…
19:49:48 F. 104… Starfighter.
19:49:54 Which is not from Luke Skywalker, that's really what this plane was called when they.
19:49:59 designed it in 1956 or something. And, uh… I can go through and just individually mark these particular planes, like, this is, uh.
19:50:12 F4 Phantom and. Uh, this is, uh… Um… scene 46 and.
19:50:22 various incendiary planes, so you can mark them. But the nice thing about this is after you do this.
19:50:28 And let's go. grab this one here, because it's nice and handy.
19:50:33 Um, this is… doesn't tell you anything about where it is, but I happen to know this was also… this photograph was also taken at Miramar.
19:50:41 I want to have a caption. This is a, um…
19:50:50 Trying to remember that designation of it. S…
19:51:01 I can't remember that one. I'll pick on this one instead.
19:51:07 This is a F.
19:51:14 T28. Talon.
19:51:23 G28.
19:51:28 T28… Comma…
19:51:42 Um… What's Top Gun.
19:51:49 This… this particular type of plane is called a T28. It was a trainer, an advanced trainer, supersonic trainer.
19:51:57 It's painted as if it's a Russian plane because.
19:52:00 when they're training, uh, dogfighting tactics in the American.
19:52:04 uh, Navy, they call the aggressors the aggressors, and they paint them up to look similar.
19:52:10 And the pilots of the T-28.
19:52:11 a clear trick.
19:52:16 I'm sorry?
19:52:27 they fly these planes as if they're Russian pilots to give our.
19:52:30 pilots training in how to fight them. So, if I type in these keywords for the, uh… plane, I can then go back and do a search on it.
19:52:40 And if I say T28. it'll find that. Ah?
19:52:46 Well… it would work most of the time. It hasn't had time to sync this, but normally it would work, and it would tell me that it would…
19:53:02 The other thing to note, though, is that if I… sit here and I export this photograph, this photograph here, which I didn't add any metadata to.
19:53:13 I export the one photo. to my desktop.
19:53:21 Um… And then I take this T28 that I added some.
19:53:29 keywords to. to export to the desktop?
19:53:34 No, that's not what I meant it to do.
19:53:45 And then I get all this stuff out of the way so we can actually see something.
19:53:55 show these things side by side by saying git info.
19:53:58 You'll see that the one where I added nothing.
19:54:02 it doesn't show anything extra. This is that first photograph of the surveillance plane. It's not showing anything at all.
19:54:10 But this one where I added the extra information said it was Top Gun, Aggressor, T28.
19:54:16 Uh, it keeps that information. It actually writes that into this information.
19:54:22 which is searchable in the Finder. Which means you don't have to go into photos in order to find it.
19:54:28 If you just happen to have this photo sitting on your desktop, it would be able to find it.
19:54:33 And I'm showing you this because a lot of people have a lot of stuff on their.
19:54:37 computers, and it's in no particular order. And… To give you an example.
19:54:44 In my Documents folder. Uh, when you.
19:54:48 create something in Word. Word will, unless you tell it otherwise, try to save it in your documents folder.
19:54:58 in your, uh, pictures folder. If you. Um, have a movie, it'll try to save it in.
19:55:04 your movie folder. Why does it do that? It does that so that you can find things, because if you just dump everything into one folder.
19:55:11 it's almost impossible to find. And that's not good.
19:55:16 are there times when you might want to have a movie and photos and documents all in one photo?
19:55:22 Yes, if you're doing something like a family history and you want to have.
19:55:26 the photographs of the family, and you went to have short little videos of the family, and you want to have a narrative about.
19:55:32 you know, coming over to the new world from Hong Kong or whatever.
19:55:36 Yes, that makes sense to put all of that stuff into one folder, but for the most part, you kind of want to have.
19:55:42 written documents in a documents folder, you want to have movies in a movie folder.
19:55:46 and whatnot. It's a good way to organize it.
19:55:49 And it's much harder to do that. if all of your images are called image.
19:55:55 and all of your documents are called documents. Believe it or not.
19:55:58 I once worked with a woman who was the secretary for the director.
19:56:02 for some not… years and years and years. She was an expert at Windows, and one day she had a problem, so she called me over.
19:56:12 And even though I'm not a… didn't tell anybody I was a Windows guru.
19:56:16 went over and looked at her machine. She had been saving 20 years' worth of documents into a single directory.
19:56:23 There were no subdirectories, it's just a single directory.
19:56:27 And she would do things like. April 21st minutes.
19:56:32 April 22nd minutes. April 23rd minutes. Do you know how difficult it is to search.
19:56:39 through that, because it's not organized chronologically. If you try and sort it alphabetically, all the Aprils are listed together.
19:56:48 And then December has come after April. And if you want to come to January, that's in the middle someplace, because alphabetically.
19:56:56 Doesn't make any sense. If you want to name something.
19:57:00 chronologically. I'll make a folder here. If I was making a folder about today.
19:57:06 I would number it something like. 20? Ah.
19:57:15 C5, 11… 18… Meeting. Why would I do that? Because if I list them alphabetically, they'll all be listed by date.
19:57:27 in the proper order, year, month, day. If you have it month, day, year, or day, month, year, or any other way, they're just going to be scattered all over the place. They won't be in any particular order.
19:57:42 So, there are ways to improve editing on the Mac, but one of the ways to improve editing is to give some thought.
19:57:49 to actually putting some metadata in there and telling you things.
19:57:52 In this picture of this, um… E2C Hawkeye, that was what I was looking for earlier.
19:57:57 This is an E2C Hawkeye. how can I tell the finder that this is an E2C Hawkeye? Believe it or not.
19:58:05 I can actually write a comment here. E2C… Hawkeye.
19:58:15 electronic.
19:58:20 warfare craft. Now, because I typed this in to the finder, it'll now search for it. I can actually find that in the finder.
19:58:32 But an easier way to do this sort of thing is to do this within Photos, because photos… is actually designed for working with photos.
19:58:40 How did I get this to blow up? uh, show on the screen quickly.
19:58:47 Anyone have any idea how to do that?
19:58:52 I pressed the spacebar. It was highlighted, I pressed the spacebar.
19:58:59 If you went to look at something and you want to have a quick look at it.
19:59:03 press the spacebar.
19:59:08 They don't have to do anything really fancy, just… Press the spacebar.
19:59:13 Um, Lawrence?
19:59:15 Yes.
19:59:14 Um, another way to rename a whole bunch of files really quickly is just select them all, and then right-click on one of them, and select Rename.
19:59:27 And it comes up with that thing you showed me from this…
19:59:30 From the editor, uh, from the script editor.
19:59:35 Um, yes, but you can't really do the search and replace, which is what I did.
19:59:38 Yeah, find and replace, yeah.
19:59:41 It's… it comes up with find and replace as a window.
19:59:42 Um…
19:59:46 Isn't it the same?
19:59:46 Yeah, but… It is the same, but I can actually get it, the way I did it, I can get more granularity.
19:59:55 Uh, because among other things, there are other scripts in there.
19:59:58 Uh, in that script library. Uh, but yes, you're correct, you can also do it that other way.
20:00:04 The trouble is, if it… sometimes it'll get confused, and then you'll end up with.
20:00:07 files that have no name at all. If you have a naming conflict where two files have.
20:00:13 Oh.
20:00:11 roughly the same name. you'll have a naming convent.
20:00:14 Well, if they… if they all say image, you know, they…
20:00:23 Oh, okay. No, you're right, yeah.
20:00:20 Well, say you have 2 images 345s.
20:00:25 Well, how does the other one figure it out?
20:00:29 The other one will give in, uh, what's called an incrementator, so it'll be, uh, 345A, 345B, 345C.
20:00:36 Oh, okay, and the other… the other window wouldn't do that?
20:00:39 I don't know… I remember having problems with it some time ago, so I went back to the way that I do.
20:00:45 There's also another way to do this, but it costs money.
20:00:49 Um, and because it costs money, that's not necessarily bad. There is, uh, something out there called.
20:00:58 here's a bunch of things that are called Pensacola.
20:01:02 Um, and I have a program, commercial program. Called, uh… a better… Finder rename.
20:01:15 Which, of course, it's not finding. There it is, it just took it a while.
20:01:21 And it's gonna come up, and it's gonna say, do you want to have the new version? No, I don't want to have the new version.
20:01:25 This one can do actually fairly complicated things. So, it says, Pensacola 209… 2019, whatever.
20:01:36 Um, I can have it look for… Yeah, oh, these ones down at the bottom.
20:01:42 are not named. So this is just some of these are called Pensacola.
20:01:49 Alright, we're gonna change these ones that say DSN.
20:01:52 We're gonna have it look for.
20:01:57 D… S-C-N.
20:02:01 And we're going to have it… Uh, actually, I don't want that.
20:02:06 And I want it to be…
20:02:10 I don't want its sequence numbers, I want it.
20:02:17 D-S-C-N. Uh, no.
20:02:24 Place text. Look for. D-S-C-N.
20:02:30 and replace it with Florida.
20:02:37 And… Then I grab… All of these into this window.
20:02:48 And it found 776 items. It's going to change these on only 632, because 632.
20:02:56 have that pattern. They perform rename. say, go for it.
20:03:02 Oh, and it says that it recognizes that I'm not the, uh… my fake person is not the lawful owner, so it only changed 10 of them.
20:03:11 Not my best demo, but. Um, it would go through, and you can give it all kinds of different commands. It's got, like, 200 different ways to rename.
20:03:22 Was that from the App Store?
20:03:20 lots and lots and lots of files. And since I… Um, I don't know.
20:03:26 Where did you get it?
20:03:27 That's a… Let's bring up the App Store and find out.
20:03:37 Come on.
20:03:50 Uh, smart renamer, easy renamer… renamer… as you can see, there are lots of companies out there that have that.
20:03:55 Apparently, yeah.
20:04:03 Uh, because it's a common problem, and people want to do it.
20:04:03 Um… a bunch of them at a time.
20:04:07 So let me go out and bring out my… a better finder rename.
20:04:16 is by public space.
20:04:22 And… Apparently it's not on the App Store.
20:04:26 I think I did this because, again, I was working with photographs, and I have millions. You'll see their example is from, uh, photographs.
20:04:34 Yeah, that's very powerful. That's a…
20:04:34 I…
20:04:37 Well, it's scripted and also it'll also do sequential, so if you have a bunch of things that have.
20:04:44 similar names, it'll just go through and name them 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
20:04:47 Oh, that's great, yeah.
20:04:50 Um, it's, um, it's really, really quite powerful. But it's, it's also not free.
20:04:54 Um, I recently scanned… 7,500… slides.
20:05:01 Wow.
20:05:02 And, uh, about 4,000. Flat photographs.
20:05:09 So, and the scanner, I wanted to do it in a hurry, so I just said, do it. And so it named some things like image… uh, 1456, image 1457.
20:05:20 And then I have to look at it and figure out what it is.
20:05:24 Um, and this is, um… huge time saver for me.
20:05:28 Um, because, again, I've been… I've seen people's. machines where they have just.
20:05:34 decades of documents, and they're named things like Document 1, Document 2, Document 3.
20:05:40 Document 543. Um, there's one.
20:05:46 this one guy, he's allegedly an attorney. And I say allegedly, because I don't have any proof of it.
20:05:53 who's been using computers forever. his files were named Document 1, Document 2.
20:05:59 Document 3, Document 4, Document 555. And I asked him about that, and he said that he was not aware.
20:06:08 you could name the documents. How you could use a machine for decades and not learn that when it puts up that little.
20:06:19 Fox asking for the document name. You just don't have to press return.
20:06:22 You don't have to leave it named. document. You can change it.
20:06:28 Um… But it makes it much easier to search and find things if they have, uh… uh, useful names.
20:06:38 Um, any questions on anything I've said? I've actually talked about a bunch of stuff.
20:06:42 So, I'm. more than willing to entertain… Oh, also, I haven't given…
20:06:47 No good. I have a quick question. Um… when… when we go… this new system, the 26 on my iMac.
20:06:57 All the file folders… in documents come up this real dark color, almost black.
20:07:04 Is there a way to get them back to light blue like they used to be?
20:07:10 I just find it annoying.
20:07:10 Yes. Uh, yes. I'm going to paste into the chat window, I'm going to paste in a link to the registration form.
20:07:19 Which I should have had you look at, uh, earlier.
20:07:22 But, uh, um. If you go into… let's quit out of that… Quit out of that… Um, go into Settings.
20:07:34 In Settings. Um… Where is it located?
20:07:43 appearance, you can have it as. Um, you can have auto, light.
20:07:52 Mm.
20:07:51 or dark. And if you have it as light, it's light, and if you have it as dark, then everything is dark, and auto will do it during times of the day.
20:08:00 So in the daytime. Um, it'll be whatever it thinks is good for the daytime, and at nighttime, it'll be something else, but.
20:08:09 This was set at auto because that's the way that it's set up, so you'll notice everything has a black background.
20:08:14 But if you want it light, which is the way it used to be.
20:08:18 press that, and it makes it light.
20:08:18 So, the file folders, it'll make those light.
20:08:24 The file folders, you actually have, like, the regular file folders for years have been blue.
20:08:27 Yeah. Right.
20:08:29 You can come along, you can click on that, and you can make it orange if you want.
20:08:33 And you can customize it so the neural and all the same. So you can have some that are orange, and you can have some that are green, and some that are blue. You can.
20:08:40 you're no longer stuck with a single color. Um, you can change it now.
20:08:52 Mm-hmm.
20:08:51 You, yes, um. You just… You just pick the color you want, and.
20:09:01 It'll go back to, um… In this case, it says multicolor, but you can have it as light blue if you want that.
20:09:08 But if… in particular, if you give it… if you tag it… so, for example, if I want to tag this.
20:09:14 Mm-hmm.
20:09:15 as something important. now this one, uh, it won't… it doesn't look like it now, but you notice the name now has a tag.
20:09:23 This is something you didn't used to be able to do that.
20:09:23 I see.
20:09:26 So you can say that this is an important one, or you can just come through and just make the entire.
20:09:31 Uh, folder. I don't know why it made it disappear. It's not supposed to be transparent, but it'll make the entire folder disappear.
20:09:34 Hmm.
20:09:38 red or blue, or whatever it is that you want it to be.
20:09:40 You can also change the. The widgets, these are all multicolor widgets, you can make them all darker.
20:09:47 clear or whatever. You have a lot more change.
20:09:50 you have a lot more, uh, control over the interface than you did.
20:09:55 Before, a lot of people don't like the transmit menu. You notice the menu up here at the top.
20:09:59 Right.
20:09:59 I can actually see the background through it. Well, a lot of people, for whatever reason, don't like that. And you can come through, and you can make it tinted.
20:10:03 I don't.
20:10:07 In which case, now it's actually… it's actually got a… a tent like it did before.
20:10:13 But I like being able to see the background. I don't like being boxed in.
20:10:18 Um, so lots of things. You can tint the windows in the background with wallpaper colors and.
20:10:24 Mm-hmm. Okay, great, thank you.
20:10:25 all kinds of things. But that's… that's under, uh… appearance. Keep in mind that.
20:10:32 Appearance and accessibility, to some extent, do the same things. Like, if you went to.
20:10:38 You went to have a larger text. You might think that's under.
20:10:42 Parents, but that's actually under accessibility. Because, again, it's designed to.
20:10:49 appearance is, is… kind of personal preference, whereas accessibility is a general problem that you're trying to solve.
20:10:56 I recommend everybody go and turn on Zoom, for example.
20:10:54 Right.
20:10:59 Because being able to just do. Command plus, uh… Um, to blow things up is just… really handy.
20:11:06 Great, thank you, Lawrence.
20:11:10 Just to show you how I normally set my display.
20:11:13 Because normally I like seeing a lot of stuff at once.
20:11:15 Normally, I have it set like this. And I doubt any of you can read anything off my screen.
20:11:22 But, uh. I have to remember that for meetings, it's probably nicer to have at a larger size.
20:11:29 Uh, and if I don't have it a larger size.
20:11:33 Remind me.
20:11:38 I have two screens right now. Because I'll… I'm one of these people who.
20:11:43 might have, like, 15 documents open at once.
20:11:49 The life of an historian. Any other questions?
20:12:02 Uh, one of the questions that was sent to me that I did not have a chance to, uh… demonstrate because I'm not showing things on an iPad.
20:12:09 How do you reveal the app menus at the top of an iPad screen?
20:12:15 Anyone know the answer to that?
20:12:18 Could you repeat the question?
20:12:22 How do you reveal the app? menus at the top of the iPad screen.
20:12:26 The iPad didn't normally have. menus up at the top. Now it does.
20:12:30 You draw your finger down slowly. From the top.
20:12:31 If you don't see… or you just touch the top.
20:12:38 in the menus will show up.
20:12:46 Um, but that's… it used… it used to be that sometimes you had to.
20:12:50 depending upon who wrote the app, you had to search around for.
20:12:53 how to change options and menu items and so on and so forth. And they've tried to, uh.
20:13:01 One thing to note is that this trick only works if some… Nobody bothered to write their program to follow Apple's standards, so it works with Apple's programs, but it may not work with somebody else's program.
20:13:13 Similarly, you can run. some… iPad and iPhone applications on the Mac now.
20:13:22 But a lot of them do not have things like.
20:13:24 Like, you can't do Command-Q to quit out of them because.
20:13:27 There is no iPhone or iPad equivalent to that.
20:13:32 So if you want to quit, you have to go up to the manual.
20:13:35 Bar and select quit.
20:13:39 They… there's a limit as to how much you can… you can make things compatible between the interfaces.
20:13:49 Any questions? Please fill out the attendance form.
20:13:56 Where is it?
20:13:55 Because that's useful to me. Um, and, um… One more question that I have for you guys is, are we going to have a meeting in December?
20:14:08 Where is the attendance form?
20:14:12 Uh, I pasted it into the chat window.
20:14:16 And I pasted it in again, in case. You know, chat window's hiding.
20:14:19 Ah, okay.
20:14:25 Chat? Oh.
20:14:26 I would suggest no meeting for December. It's a really busy month for us.
20:14:35 everything.
20:14:33 It's a really busy month for. For me, too.
20:14:38 I would thicken that. I'd have a hard time showing up for…
20:14:37 Uh, because I work for a church.
20:14:43 A December one.
20:14:46 Yeah, well, I work for a church and. I don't even know what I'm doing in December, because.
20:14:52 They plan, you know, we're going to have… we're going to have a celebration of.
20:14:57 some theological thing that I'd never heard of before.
20:15:00 Um, are you available? Well, I guess so.
20:15:06 Hmm.
20:15:06 So, next January?
20:15:10 Yes. Think about what you want to do for next January. How's that sound?
20:15:13 Good.
20:15:15 Send me suggestions. And if I can figure out a way to demonstrate things on my phone without having my.
20:15:23 phones show up on the internet, I'll give that some thought.
20:15:31 Yeah, thank you, Lawrence. Thank you.
20:15:33 Didn't I?
20:15:28 Okay. Bye, everybody.